Keraia
Lexicon

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

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

5,502 total
  1. 1 Kings 13:9אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    For this is what I was commanded by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water or return by the way you came.’”
  2. 1 Kings 13:10אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
  3. 1 Kings 13:11אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
  4. 1 Kings 13:12אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    “Which way did he go?” their father asked. And his sons showed him the way taken by the man of God, who had come from Judah.
  5. 1 Kings 13:14אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    …and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
  6. 1 Kings 13:17אֲשֶׁר־
    For I have been told by the word of the LORD: ‘You must not eat bread or drink water there or return by the way you came.’”
  7. 1 Kings 13:20אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,
  8. 1 Kings 13:21אֲשֶׁר־ · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because you have defied the word of the LORD and have not kept the commandment that the LORD your God gave you,
  9. 1 Kings 13:22אֲשֶׁ֣ר · where
    …but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place where He told you not to do so, your body shall never reach the tomb of your fathers.’”
  10. 1 Kings 13:23אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.
  11. 1 Kings 13:25אֲשֶׁ֛ר · where
    And there were men passing by who saw the body lying in the road with the lion standing beside it, and they went and reported this in the city where the old prophet lived.
  12. 1 Kings 13:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    When the prophet who had brought him back from his journey heard this, he said, “It is the man of God who disobeyed the command of the LORD. Therefore the LORD has delivered him to the lion, and it has mauled him and killed him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken to him.”
  13. 1 Kings 13:31אֲשֶׁ֛ר · where
    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,
  14. 1 Kings 13:32אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  15. 1 Kings 14:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Go, tell Jeroboam that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I raised you up from among the people and appointed you ruler over My people Israel.
  16. 1 Kings 14:8אֲשֶׁר֩ · who; וַאֲשֶׁר־ · and
    I tore the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it to you. But you have not been like My servant David, who kept My commandments and followed Me with all his heart, doing only what was right in My eyes.
  17. 1 Kings 14:9אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
  18. 1 Kings 14:10כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · as
    Because of all this, behold, I am bringing disaster on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male, both slave and free, in Israel; I will burn up the house of Jeroboam as one burns up dung until it is gone!
  19. 1 Kings 14:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Moreover, the LORD will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day—yes, even today!
  20. 1 Kings 14:15כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · as; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.
  21. 1 Kings 14:16אֲשֶׁ֣ר; וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
  22. 1 Kings 14:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    And they buried him, and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servant Ahijah the prophet.
  23. 1 Kings 14:19אֲשֶׁ֥ר · how; וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר · and how
    As for the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he waged war and how he reigned, they are indeed written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
  24. 1 Kings 14:20אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And the length of Jeroboam’s reign was twenty-two years, and he rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab reigned in his place.
  25. 1 Kings 14:21אֲשֶׁר־ · in which
    Meanwhile, Rehoboam son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
  26. 1 Kings 14:22אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
  27. 1 Kings 14:24אֲשֶׁר֙
    There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  28. 1 Kings 14:26אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
  29. 1 Kings 14:29אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    As for the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, along with all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  30. 1 Kings 15:3אֲשֶׁר־
    And Abijam walked in all the sins that his father before him had committed, and his heart was not as fully devoted to the LORD his God as the heart of David his forefather had been.
  31. 1 Kings 15:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר · For; אֲשֶׁר־
    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
  32. 1 Kings 15:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר · his accomplishments
    As for the rest of the acts of Abijam, along with all his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
  33. 1 Kings 15:12אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
  34. 1 Kings 15:13אֲשֶׁר־ · because
    He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
  35. 1 Kings 15:20אֲשֶׁר־
    And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
  36. 1 Kings 15:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.