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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. 1 Kings 10:24אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    The whole world sought an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
  2. 1 Kings 10:27אֲשֶׁר־
    The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
  3. 1 Kings 10:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר · Solomon’s
    Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
  4. 1 Kings 11:2אֲשֶׁ֣ר · about which
    These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
  5. 1 Kings 11:7אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    At that time on a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites.
  6. 1 Kings 11:10אֲשֶׁר־
    Although He had warned Solomon explicitly not to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD’s command.
  7. 1 Kings 11:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.
  8. 1 Kings 11:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    Yet I will not tear the whole kingdom away from him. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, which I have chosen.”
  9. 1 Kings 11:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    And God raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah,
  10. 1 Kings 11:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר · [caused by]
    Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.
  11. 1 Kings 11:27אֲשֶׁר־
    …and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.
  12. 1 Kings 11:30אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And Ahijah took hold of the new cloak he was wearing, tore it into twelve pieces,
  13. 1 Kings 11:32אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
  14. 1 Kings 11:33אֲשֶׁ֣ר · they have
    For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did.
  15. 1 Kings 11:34אֲשֶׁ֣ר · whom; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · because
    Nevertheless, I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon’s hand, because I have made him ruler all the days of his life for the sake of David My servant, whom I chose because he kept My commandments and statutes.
  16. 1 Kings 11:36אֲשֶׁ֣ר · where
    I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.
  17. 1 Kings 11:37אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.
  18. 1 Kings 11:38אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as; כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · just as
    If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.
  19. 1 Kings 11:41אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    As for the rest of the acts of Solomon—all that he did, as well as his wisdom—are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
  20. 1 Kings 11:42אֲשֶׁר֩ · that
    Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
  21. 1 Kings 12:2אֲשֶׁ֣ר · where
    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.
  22. 1 Kings 12:4אֲשֶׁר־
    “Your father put a heavy yoke on us. But now you must lighten the burden of your father’s service and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.”
  23. 1 Kings 12:6אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.
  24. 1 Kings 12:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
  25. 1 Kings 12:9אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who; אֲשֶׁר־
    He asked them, “What message do you advise that we send back to these people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?”
  26. 1 Kings 12:10אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who; אֲשֶׁר֩ · who
    The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
  27. 1 Kings 12:12כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · since
    After three days, Jeroboam and all the people returned to Rehoboam, since the king had said, “Come back to me on the third day.”
  28. 1 Kings 12:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And the king answered the people harshly. He rejected the advice of the elders
  29. 1 Kings 12:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
  30. 1 Kings 12:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    Then King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
  31. 1 Kings 12:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”
  32. 1 Kings 12:31אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.
  33. 1 Kings 12:32אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that [was]; אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
  34. 1 Kings 12:33אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־
    On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
  35. 1 Kings 13:3אֲשֶׁ֖ר; אֲשֶׁר־
    That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
  36. 1 Kings 13:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  37. 1 Kings 13:5אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.