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אֲשֶׁר

a.sherwhichHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentPronoun5,502 occurrences39 books4,440 verses

Definition

a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
Traditional renderings: × after, × alike, as (soon as), because, × every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), × if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), × though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֲשֶׁר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,502 total
  1. Judges 9:17אֲשֶׁר־ · for
    …for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
  2. Judges 9:24אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    …in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
  3. Judges 9:25אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
  4. Judges 9:32אֲשֶׁר־
    Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
  5. Judges 9:33אֲשֶׁר־; כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · whatever
    And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”
  6. Judges 9:34אֲשֶׁר־
    So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
  7. Judges 9:35אֲשֶׁר־
    Now Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelech and his men came out from their hiding places.
  8. Judges 9:38אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
  9. Judges 9:44אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who [were]
    Then Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
  10. Judges 9:45אֲשֶׁר־
    And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
  11. Judges 9:48אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    …he and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
  12. Judges 9:56אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that
    In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
  13. Judges 10:4אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
  14. Judges 10:8אֲשֶׁר֙; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
  15. Judges 10:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
  16. Judges 10:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
  17. Judges 11:5כַּאֲשֶׁר־
    …and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
  18. Judges 11:7כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · when
    Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
  19. Judges 11:24אֲשֶׁ֧ר · whatever; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
  20. Judges 11:26אֲשֶׁר֙
    For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
  21. Judges 11:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
  22. Judges 11:31אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whatever
    …then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
  23. Judges 11:36כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
  24. Judges 11:39אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
  25. Judges 13:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
  26. Judges 13:10אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
  27. Judges 13:11אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
  28. Judges 13:13אֲשֶׁר־
    So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
  29. Judges 13:14אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁר־
    She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
  30. Judges 14:6אֲשֶׁ֥ר · what
    …and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
  31. Judges 14:17אֲשֶׁר־
    She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
  32. Judges 14:20אֲשֶׁ֥ר · to one of the men who
    …and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
  33. Judges 15:10כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · for what
    “Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
  34. Judges 15:11כַּאֲשֶׁר֙
    In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
  35. Judges 15:14אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
  36. Judges 15:19אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · and it remains
    So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
  37. Judges 16:3אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
  38. Judges 16:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
  39. Judges 16:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.