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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 33:9אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
  2. Jeremiah 33:10אֲשֶׁר֙
    This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
  3. Jeremiah 33:14אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will fulfill the gracious promise that I have spoken to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
  4. Jeremiah 33:16אֲשֶׁר־ · is the name
    In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.
  5. Jeremiah 33:22אֲשֶׁ֤ר · As
    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me.”
  6. Jeremiah 33:24אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
  7. Jeremiah 34:1אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
  8. Jeremiah 34:5אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    …you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
  9. Jeremiah 34:8אֲשֶׁר־; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  10. Jeremiah 34:10אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    So all the officials and all the people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their menservants and maidservants and no longer hold them in bondage. They obeyed and released them,
  11. Jeremiah 34:11אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    …but later they changed their minds and took back the menservants and maidservants they had freed, and they forced them to become slaves again.
  12. Jeremiah 34:14אֲשֶֽׁר־ · who
    Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
  13. Jeremiah 34:15אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
  14. Jeremiah 34:16אֲשֶׁר־ · whom
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  15. Jeremiah 34:18אֲשֶׁ֤ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And those who have transgressed My covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.
  16. Jeremiah 35:1אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
  17. Jeremiah 35:4אֲשֶׁר־ · This [room was]; אֲשֶׁ֣ר · which
    …and I brought them into the house of the LORD, to a chamber occupied by the sons of Hanan son of Igdaliah, a man of God. This room was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah son of Shallum the doorkeeper.
  18. Jeremiah 35:7אֲשֶׁ֥ר · where
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  19. Jeremiah 35:8אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
  20. Jeremiah 35:10אֲשֶׁר־
    But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
  21. Jeremiah 35:14אֲשֶׁר־ · He
    The words of Jonadab son of Rechab have been carried out. He commanded his sons not to drink wine, and they have not drunk it to this very day because they have obeyed the command of their forefather. But I have spoken to you again and again, and you have not obeyed Me!
  22. Jeremiah 35:15אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  23. Jeremiah 35:16אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
  24. Jeremiah 35:17אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  25. Jeremiah 35:18אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Then Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
  26. Jeremiah 36:2אֲשֶׁר־
    “Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
  27. Jeremiah 36:3אֲשֶׁ֛ר
    Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about all the calamity I plan to bring upon them, each of them will turn from his wicked way. Then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”
  28. Jeremiah 36:4אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    So Jeremiah called Baruch son of Neriah, and at the dictation of Jeremiah, Baruch wrote on a scroll all the words that the LORD had spoken to Jeremiah.
  29. Jeremiah 36:6אֲשֶׁר־
    …so you are to go to the house of the LORD on a day of fasting, and in the hearing of the people you are to read the words of the LORD from the scroll you have written at my dictation. Read them in the hearing of all the people of Judah who are coming from their cities.
  30. Jeremiah 36:7אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Perhaps they will bring their petition before the LORD, and each one will turn from his wicked way; for great are the anger and fury that the LORD has pronounced against this people.”
  31. Jeremiah 36:8אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    So Baruch son of Neriah did everything that Jeremiah the prophet had commanded him. In the house of the LORD he read the words of the LORD from the scroll.
  32. Jeremiah 36:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    And Micaiah reported to them all the words he had heard Baruch read from the scroll in the hearing of the people.
  33. Jeremiah 36:14אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.
  34. Jeremiah 36:23אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
  35. Jeremiah 36:27אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  36. Jeremiah 36:28אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר · which
    “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.
  37. Jeremiah 36:31אֲשֶׁר־ · about which
    I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
  38. Jeremiah 36:32אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.
  39. Jeremiah 37:1אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
  40. Jeremiah 37:2אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    But he and his officers and the people of the land refused to obey the words that the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.
  41. Jeremiah 37:19אֲשֶׁר־ · who
    Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
  42. Jeremiah 38:1אֲשֶׁ֧ר · that
    Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people: