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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 Chronicles 34:28אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    ‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  2. 2 Chronicles 34:33אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
  3. 2 Chronicles 35:3אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    To the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.
  4. 2 Chronicles 35:18אֲשֶׁר־ · like the one that
    No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
  5. 2 Chronicles 35:20אֲשֶׁ֨ר · when
    After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt marched up to fight at Carchemish by the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to confront him.
  6. 2 Chronicles 35:21אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty, and God has told me to hurry. So stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”
  7. 2 Chronicles 35:24אֲשֶׁר־
    So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.
  8. 2 Chronicles 36:8אֲשֶׁר־
    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
  9. 2 Chronicles 36:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. But Zedekiah stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel.
  10. 2 Chronicles 36:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
  11. 2 Chronicles 36:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”
  12. Ezra 1:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.
  13. Ezra 1:3אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
  14. Ezra 1:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And let every survivor, wherever he lives, be assisted by the men of that region with silver, gold, goods, and livestock, along with a freewill offering for the house of God in Jerusalem.’”
  15. Ezra 1:5אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
  16. Ezra 1:7אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.
  17. Ezra 2:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,
  18. Ezra 2:2אֲשֶׁר־
    …accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
  19. Ezra 2:61אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    And from among the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who had married a daughter of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
  20. Ezra 2:63אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.
  21. Ezra 2:68אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.
  22. Ezra 3:12אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who
    But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.
  23. Ezra 4:3כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · as
    But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of the families of Israel replied, “You have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone must build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as Cyrus king of Persia has commanded us.”
  24. Ezra 7:6אֲשֶׁר־ · which
    …this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted Ezra all his requests, for the hand of the LORD his God was upon him.
  25. Ezra 7:11אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes had given to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in the commandments and statutes of the LORD to Israel:
  26. Ezra 7:27אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in Jerusalem,
  27. Ezra 9:11אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · with which
    …that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
  28. Ezra 10:8אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.
  29. Ezra 10:14אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”
  30. Ezra 10:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.
  31. Nehemiah 1:2אֲשֶֽׁר־ · who
    Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
  32. Nehemiah 1:3אֲשֶֽׁר־ · who
    And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
  33. Nehemiah 1:6אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    …let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.
  34. Nehemiah 1:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.
  35. Nehemiah 1:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
  36. Nehemiah 1:9אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …but if you return to Me and keep and practice My commandments, then even if your exiles have been banished to the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for My Name.’
  37. Nehemiah 1:10אֲשֶׁ֤ר · them
    They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
  38. Nehemiah 2:3אֲשֶׁ֨ר · when
    …and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”
  39. Nehemiah 2:5אֲשֶׁ֧ר · I ask that
    …and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”
  40. Nehemiah 2:7אֲשֶׁר֙ · so that; אֲשֶׁר־
    I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.
  41. Nehemiah 2:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר · of the king’s; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · so that; אֲשֶׁר־
    And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.