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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 19:4אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    …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.
  2. Jeremiah 19:5אֲשֶׁ֤ר · something
    They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
  3. Jeremiah 19:9אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
  4. Jeremiah 19:11כַּאֲשֶׁ֤ר · like; אֲשֶׁ֛ר · that
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  5. Jeremiah 19:13אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
  6. Jeremiah 19:14אֲשֶׁ֨ר · where
    Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
  7. Jeremiah 19:15אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  8. Jeremiah 20:2אֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֖ר · which [was]
    …he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 20:6אֲשֶׁר־ · to whom
    And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die and be buried—you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied these lies.’”
  10. Jeremiah 20:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁר־
    Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
  11. Jeremiah 20:15אֲשֶׁ֨ר · who
    Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
  12. Jeremiah 20:16אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  13. Jeremiah 20:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר · because
    …because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
  14. Jeremiah 21:1אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
  15. Jeremiah 21:4אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֨ר · with which
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  16. Jeremiah 22:9אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
  17. Jeremiah 22:11אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
  18. Jeremiah 22:12אֲשֶׁר־ · to which
    …but he will die in the place to which he was exiled; he will never see this land again.”
  19. Jeremiah 22:25אֲשֶׁר־ · to those
    In fact, I will hand you over to those you dread, who want to take your life—to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and to the Chaldeans.
  20. Jeremiah 22:26אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · where
    I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die.
  21. Jeremiah 22:27אֲשֶׁר־
    You will never return to the land for which you long.”
  22. Jeremiah 22:28אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Is this man Coniah a despised and shattered pot, a jar that no one wants? Why are he and his descendants hurled out and cast into a land they do not know?
  23. Jeremiah 23:3אֲשֶׁר־ · to which
    Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
  24. Jeremiah 23:6אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־ · by which
    In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  25. Jeremiah 23:7אֲשֶׁ֧ר · who
    So 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.’
  26. Jeremiah 23:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר · who; וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · to which
    Instead they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel up out of the land of the north and all the other lands to which He had banished them.’ Then they will dwell once more in their own land.”
  27. Jeremiah 23:25אֲשֶׁר־
    “I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
  28. Jeremiah 23:27אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that; כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · just as
    They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
  29. Jeremiah 23:28אֲשֶׁר־ · who; וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר · but let him who
    Let the prophet who has a dream retell it, but let him who has My word speak it truthfully. For what is straw compared to grain?” declares the LORD.
  30. Jeremiah 23:34אֲשֶׁ֥ר · who
    As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
  31. Jeremiah 23:39אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    …therefore I will surely forget you and will cast you out of My presence, both you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
  32. Jeremiah 23:40אֲשֶׁ֖ר · that
    And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”
  33. Jeremiah 24:2אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early, but the other basket contained very poor figs, so bad they could not be eaten.
  34. Jeremiah 24:3אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
  35. Jeremiah 24:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר · whom
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  36. Jeremiah 24:8אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
  37. Jeremiah 24:9אֲשֶֽׁר־
    I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
  38. Jeremiah 24:10אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”
  39. Jeremiah 25:1אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  40. Jeremiah 25:2אֲשֶׁ֨ר · So
    So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:
  41. Jeremiah 25:5אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.