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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. Esther 7:10אֲשֶׁר־
    So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
  2. Esther 8:2אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.
  3. Esther 8:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
  4. Esther 8:5אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
  5. Esther 8:6אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
  6. Esther 8:7אֲשֶׁר־
    So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
  7. Esther 8:8אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
  8. Esther 8:9אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר׀
    At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
  9. Esther 8:11אֲשֶׁר֩ · By these letters; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
  10. Esther 8:17אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
  11. Esther 9:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  12. Esther 9:3אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
  13. Esther 9:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
  14. Esther 9:15אֲשֶׁר־
    On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  15. Esther 9:16אֲשֶׁר֩
    The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  16. Esther 9:18אֲשֶׁר־
    The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
  17. Esther 9:20אֲשֶׁר֙
    Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
  18. Esther 9:22אֲשֶׁר־ · on which; אֲשֶׁר֩ · in which
    …as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
  19. Esther 9:23אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁר־ · as
    So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
  20. Esther 9:25אֲשֶׁר־ · which
    But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
  21. Esther 9:31כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · just as; וְכַאֲשֶׁ֛ר · [and]
    …in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
  22. Esther 10:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר · to which
    And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
  23. Job 1:10אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
  24. Job 1:11אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  25. Job 1:12אֲשֶׁר־
    “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
  26. Job 2:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר · he owns
    “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
  27. Job 3:23אֲשֶׁר־ · whose
    Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
  28. Job 3:25וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר · and what
    For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
  29. Job 4:8כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · As
    As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
  30. Job 4:19אֲשֶׁר־ · whose
    …how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
  31. Job 5:5אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
  32. Job 6:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.
  33. Job 8:14אֲשֶׁר־ · His
    His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spider’s web.
  34. Job 9:5אֲשֶׁ֖ר · [and]
    He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.
  35. Job 9:15אֲשֶׁ֣ר · For
    For even if I were right, I could not answer. I could only beg my Judge for mercy.
  36. Job 9:17אֲשֶׁר־ · For
    For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
  37. Job 10:19כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · If only
    If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
  38. Job 12:6לַאֲשֶׁ֤ר
    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
  39. Job 12:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
  40. Job 15:18אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    …what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
  41. Job 15:28אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    …he will dwell in ruined cities, in abandoned houses destined to become rubble.
  42. Job 19:27אֲשֶׁ֤ר · Him
    I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!