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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. Jeremiah 1:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Get yourself ready. Stand up and tell them everything that I command you. Do not be intimidated by them, or I will terrify you before them.
  2. Jeremiah 2:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
  3. Jeremiah 2:28אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.
  4. Jeremiah 2:36כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · just as
    How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
  5. Jeremiah 3:6אֲשֶׁ֥ר · what
    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  6. Jeremiah 3:8אֲשֶׁ֤ר
    She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet that unfaithful sister Judah had no fear and prostituted herself as well.
  7. Jeremiah 3:18אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave to your fathers as an inheritance.
  8. Jeremiah 5:9אֲשֶׁר־
    Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  9. Jeremiah 5:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · in which
    They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”
  10. Jeremiah 5:19כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · Just as
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  11. Jeremiah 5:22אֲשֶׁר־ · the One who
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  12. Jeremiah 5:29אֲשֶׁר־
    Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
  13. Jeremiah 6:18אֲשֶׁר־ · what will happen
    Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.
  14. Jeremiah 7:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  15. Jeremiah 7:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
  16. Jeremiah 7:9אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
  17. Jeremiah 7:10אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
  18. Jeremiah 7:11אֲשֶׁר־ · which
    Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 7:12אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · where; אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
  20. Jeremiah 7:14אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֤ר · [the house] in which; אֲשֶׁר־ · that; כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
  21. Jeremiah 7:15כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · just as
    And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
  22. Jeremiah 7:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  23. Jeremiah 7:25אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.
  24. Jeremiah 7:28אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  25. Jeremiah 7:30אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
  26. Jeremiah 7:31אֲשֶׁר֙; אֲשֶׁר֙
    They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
  27. Jeremiah 8:2אֲשֶׁ֨ר · which; וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר; וַֽאֲשֶׁר֙; וַאֲשֶׁ֣ר; וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
  28. Jeremiah 8:3אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  29. Jeremiah 8:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD.
  30. Jeremiah 9:9אֲשֶׁר־
    Should I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD. Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?”
  31. Jeremiah 9:12וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר · To whom
    Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?
  32. Jeremiah 9:13אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
  33. Jeremiah 9:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
  34. Jeremiah 9:16אֲשֶׁר֙ · that
    I will scatter them among the nations that neither they nor their fathers have known, and I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”
  35. Jeremiah 10:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Hear the word that the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel.
  36. Jeremiah 10:25אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.
  37. Jeremiah 11:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  38. Jeremiah 11:3אֲשֶׁר֙ · who
    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
  39. Jeremiah 11:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which
    …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’