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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 Kings 19:21אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
  2. 2 Kings 19:28אֲשֶׁר־
    Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  3. 2 Kings 19:33אֲשֶׁר־
    He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
  4. 2 Kings 20:3אֲשֶׁ֧ר · how
    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
  5. 2 Kings 20:9אֲשֶׁ֣ר · what
    And Isaiah had replied, “This will be a sign to you from the LORD that He will do what He has promised: Would you like the shadow to go forward ten steps, or back ten steps?”
  6. 2 Kings 20:11אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    So Isaiah the prophet called out to the LORD, and He brought the shadow back the ten steps it had descended on the stairway of Ahaz.
  7. 2 Kings 20:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; אֲ֠שֶׁר · that
    And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
  8. 2 Kings 20:15אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    “What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
  9. 2 Kings 20:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר · and all that; וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
  10. 2 Kings 20:18אֲשֶׁ֨ר · your own; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
  11. 2 Kings 20:19אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
  12. 2 Kings 20:20וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר · and how
    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, along with all his might and how he constructed the pool and the tunnel to bring water into the city, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  13. 2 Kings 21:2אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
  14. 2 Kings 21:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
  15. 2 Kings 21:4אֲשֶׁר֙ · of which
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
  16. 2 Kings 21:7אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · of which; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  17. 2 Kings 21:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
  18. 2 Kings 21:9אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  19. 2 Kings 21:11אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁר־ · who; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
  20. 2 Kings 21:12אֲשֶׁר֙ · that [the news]
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
  21. 2 Kings 21:13כַּֽאֲשֶׁר־ · as
    I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
  22. 2 Kings 21:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
  23. 2 Kings 21:16אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  24. 2 Kings 21:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר · his accomplishments; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  25. 2 Kings 21:20כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
  26. 2 Kings 21:21אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
  27. 2 Kings 21:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר · along with his accomplishments
    As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
  28. 2 Kings 22:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    “Go up to Hilkiah the high priest and have him count the money that has been brought into the house of the LORD, which the doorkeepers have collected from the people.
  29. 2 Kings 22:5אֲשֶׁר֙
    And let them deliver it into the hands of the supervisors of those doing the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn are to give it to the workmen repairing the damages to the house of the LORD—
  30. 2 Kings 22:13אֲשֶׁר־ · that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · because
    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
  31. 2 Kings 22:15אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    And Huldah said to them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Tell the man who sent you
  32. 2 Kings 22:16אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,
  33. 2 Kings 22:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place and will not be quenched.’
  34. 2 Kings 22:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,