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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. 2 Samuel 11:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    So the messenger set out and reported to David all that Joab had sent him to say.
  2. 2 Samuel 11:27אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  3. 2 Samuel 12:3אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    …but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.
  4. 2 Samuel 12:6אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Because he has done this thing and has shown no pity, he must pay for the lamb four times over.”
  5. 2 Samuel 12:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
  6. 2 Samuel 12:21אֲשֶׁ֣ר; וְכַֽאֲשֶׁר֙ · but when
    “What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
  7. 2 Samuel 12:31אֲשֶׁר־ · who [were]
    David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
  8. 2 Samuel 13:5אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
  9. 2 Samuel 13:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
  10. 2 Samuel 13:15אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
  11. 2 Samuel 13:16אֲשֶׁר־
    “No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
  12. 2 Samuel 13:19אֲשֶׁ֥ר · her
    And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
  13. 2 Samuel 13:22אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And Absalom never said a word to Amnon, either good or bad, because he hated Amnon for violating his sister Tamar.
  14. 2 Samuel 13:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
  15. 2 Samuel 13:29כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · just as
    So Absalom’s young men did to Amnon just as Absalom had ordered. Then all the other sons of the king got up, and each one fled on his mule.
  16. 2 Samuel 14:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר · whom; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
  17. 2 Samuel 14:14אֲשֶׁ֖ר · which
    For we will surely die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life, but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
  18. 2 Samuel 14:15אֲשֶׁר־
    Now therefore, I have come to present this matter to my lord the king because the people have made me afraid. Your servant thought, ‘I will speak to the king. Perhaps he will grant the request of his maidservant.
  19. 2 Samuel 14:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Then the king said to the woman, “I am going to ask you something; do not conceal it from me!” “Let my lord the king speak,” she replied.
  20. 2 Samuel 14:19אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
  21. 2 Samuel 14:20אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that [happens]
    Joab your servant has done this to bring about this change of affairs, but my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know everything that happens in the land.”
  22. 2 Samuel 14:22אֲשֶׁר־ · because
    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
  23. 2 Samuel 14:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And when he cut the hair of his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy—he would weigh it out to be two hundred shekels, according to the royal standard.
  24. 2 Samuel 14:31אֲשֶׁר־
    Then Joab came to Absalom’s house and demanded, “Why did your servants set my field on fire?”
  25. 2 Samuel 15:2אֲשֶֽׁר־
    He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”
  26. 2 Samuel 15:4אֲשֶֽׁר־ · with
    And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”
  27. 2 Samuel 15:6אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for justice. In this way he stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
  28. 2 Samuel 15:7אֲשֶׁר־
    After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
  29. 2 Samuel 15:14אֲשֶׁר־
    And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
  30. 2 Samuel 15:15אֲשֶׁר־
    The king’s servants replied, “Whatever our lord the king decides, we are your servants.”
  31. 2 Samuel 15:18אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    …and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
  32. 2 Samuel 15:20אֲשֶׁר־ · where
    In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
  33. 2 Samuel 15:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
  34. 2 Samuel 15:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who [were]
    “March on then,” said David to Ittai. So Ittai the Gittite marched past with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.
  35. 2 Samuel 15:26כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · whatever
    But if He should say, ‘I do not delight in you,’ then here I am; let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.”
  36. 2 Samuel 15:30אֲשֶׁר־
    But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.
  37. 2 Samuel 15:32אֲשֶֽׁר־ · where
    When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
  38. 2 Samuel 15:35אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.
  39. 2 Samuel 15:36אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Indeed, their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with everything you hear.”
  40. 2 Samuel 16:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that [belongs]
    So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
  41. 2 Samuel 16:8אֲשֶׁ֤ר · in whose
    The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
  42. 2 Samuel 16:11אֲשֶׁר־
    Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
  43. 2 Samuel 16:14אֲשֶׁר־
    Finally, the king and all the people with him arrived, exhausted. And there he refreshed himself.
  44. 2 Samuel 16:16כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־
    And David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
  45. 2 Samuel 16:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר · the one
    “Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by this people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.
  46. 2 Samuel 16:19כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · As
    Furthermore, whom should I serve if not his son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”