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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 11:4אֲשֶׁר־
    …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.’
  2. Jeremiah 11:5אֲשֶׁר־
    This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
  3. Jeremiah 11:8אֲשֶׁר־
    Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
  4. Jeremiah 11:10אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  5. Jeremiah 11:11אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
  6. Jeremiah 11:12אֲשֶׁ֛ר · to which
    Then the cities of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to which they have been burning incense, but these gods certainly will not save them in their time of disaster.
  7. Jeremiah 11:17אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
  8. Jeremiah 12:14אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
  9. Jeremiah 12:16כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · just as
    And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
  10. Jeremiah 13:4אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    “Take the loincloth that you bought and are wearing, and go at once to Perath and hide it there in a crevice of the rocks.”
  11. Jeremiah 13:5כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר · as
    So I went and hid it at Perath, as the LORD had commanded me.
  12. Jeremiah 13:6אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
  13. Jeremiah 13:7אֲשֶׁר־ · where
    So I went to Perath and dug up the loincloth, and I took it from the place where I had hidden it. But now it was ruined—of no use at all.
  14. Jeremiah 13:10אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  15. Jeremiah 13:11כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ · just as
    For just as a loincloth clings to a man’s waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.
  16. Jeremiah 13:25אֲשֶׁר֙ · because
    This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
  17. Jeremiah 14:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
  18. Jeremiah 14:16אֲשֶׁר־ · to whom
    And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.
  19. Jeremiah 15:2אֲשֶׁ֨ר · Those; וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר · those; וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר · those; וַאֲשֶׁ֥ר · and those
    If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
  20. Jeremiah 15:4אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
  21. Jeremiah 16:10אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  22. Jeremiah 16:11אֲשֶׁר־
    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
  23. Jeremiah 16:13אֲשֶׁר֙ · that; אֲשֶׁ֛ר · for
    So I will cast you out of this land into a land that neither you nor your fathers have known. There you will serve other gods day and night, for I will show you no favor.’
  24. Jeremiah 16:14אֲשֶׁ֧ר · who
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  25. Jeremiah 16:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · to which; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their forefathers.
  26. Jeremiah 17:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
  27. Jeremiah 17:5אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who
    This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 17:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
  29. Jeremiah 17:19אֲשֶׁ֨ר · through which; וַאֲשֶׁ֖ר
    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
  30. Jeremiah 17:22כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · just as
    You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
  31. Jeremiah 18:1אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  32. Jeremiah 18:4אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that; כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    But the vessel that he was shaping from the clay became flawed in his hand; so he formed it into another vessel, as it seemed best for him to do.
  33. Jeremiah 18:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
  34. Jeremiah 18:10אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
  35. Jeremiah 19:2אֲשֶׁ֕ר; אֲשֶׁר־
    …and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
  36. Jeremiah 19:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
  37. Jeremiah 19:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.