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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. Ecclesiastes 8:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
  2. Ecclesiastes 9:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
  3. Ecclesiastes 9:2כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר · It is the same; וְלַאֲשֶׁ֖ר · and the one; כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר · so [it is]
    It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
  4. Ecclesiastes 9:3אֲשֶֽׁר־ · that
    This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.
  5. Ecclesiastes 9:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    There is hope, however, for anyone who is among the living; for even a live dog is better than a dead lion.
  6. Ecclesiastes 9:6אֲשֶֽׁר־ · that
    Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
  7. Ecclesiastes 9:9אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁר־
    Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.
  8. Ecclesiastes 9:10אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · where
    Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  9. Ecclesiastes 10:14וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר · what
    Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
  10. Ecclesiastes 10:15אֲשֶׁ֥ר · for
    The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.
  11. Ecclesiastes 11:5כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · As; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
  12. Ecclesiastes 12:1אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · of which
    Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
  13. Ecclesiastes 12:2אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    …before the light of the sun, moon, and stars is darkened, and the clouds return after the rain,
  14. Ecclesiastes 12:6אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Remember Him before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is crushed, before the pitcher is shattered at the spring and the wheel is broken at the well,
  15. Ecclesiastes 12:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    …before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  16. Song of Solomon 1:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר · This [is]
    This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.
  17. Isaiah 1:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
  18. Isaiah 1:29אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Surely you will be ashamed of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen.
  19. Isaiah 1:30אֲשֶׁר־
    For you will become like an oak whose leaves are withered, like a garden without water.
  20. Isaiah 2:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the message that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
  21. Isaiah 2:8לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר · to what
    Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
  22. Isaiah 2:20אֲשֶׁ֤ר · [the idols]
    In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.
  23. Isaiah 2:22אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
  24. Isaiah 5:5אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.
  25. Isaiah 5:28אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are strung. The hooves of their horses are like flint; their chariot wheels are like a whirlwind.
  26. Isaiah 6:11אֲשֶׁר֩
    Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
  27. Isaiah 6:13אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”
  28. Isaiah 7:16אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    For before the boy knows enough to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.
  29. Isaiah 7:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”
  30. Isaiah 7:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
  31. Isaiah 7:23אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
  32. Isaiah 7:25אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
  33. Isaiah 8:12אֲשֶׁר־
    “Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
  34. Isaiah 8:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
  35. Isaiah 8:20אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  36. Isaiah 9:1לַאֲשֶׁ֣ר · for those
    Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
  37. Isaiah 9:3כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
  38. Isaiah 10:10כַּאֲשֶׁר֙ · As
    As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
  39. Isaiah 10:11כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · and as
    …and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
  40. Isaiah 11:10אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.