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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 44:24אֲשֶׁ֖ר · who
    Then Jeremiah said to all the people, including all the women, “Hear the word of the LORD, all those of Judah who are in the land of Egypt.
  2. Jeremiah 44:25אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands your words: ‘We will surely perform our vows that we have made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead, then, do what you have promised! Keep your vows!
  3. Jeremiah 44:27אֲשֶׁ֧ר · who
    I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and every man of Judah who is in the land of Egypt will meet his end by sword or famine, until they are finished off.
  4. Jeremiah 44:30כַּאֲשֶׁ֨ר · just as
    This is what the LORD says: Behold, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies who seek his life, just as I delivered Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the enemy who was seeking his life.”
  5. Jeremiah 45:1אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that
    This is the word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch son of Neriah when he wrote these words on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:
  6. Jeremiah 45:4אֲשֶׁר־ · what; אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    Thus Jeremiah was to say to Baruch: “This is what the LORD says: Throughout the land I will demolish what I have built and uproot what I have planted.
  7. Jeremiah 45:5אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I will bring disaster on every living creature, declares the LORD, but wherever you go, I will grant your life as a spoil of war.”
  8. Jeremiah 46:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · [the word] that
    This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
  9. Jeremiah 46:2אֲשֶׁר־ · which; אֲשֶׁ֣ר
    …concerning Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was defeated at Carchemish on the Euphrates River by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah:
  10. Jeremiah 46:13אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    This is the word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:
  11. Jeremiah 46:28אֲשֶׁ֧ר · to which
    And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
  12. Jeremiah 47:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.
  13. Jeremiah 48:8אֲשֶׁ֖ר · as
    The destroyer will move against every city, and not one town will escape. The valley will also be ruined, and the high plain will be destroyed, as the LORD has said.
  14. Jeremiah 48:13כַּאֲשֶׁר־ · just as
    Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
  15. Jeremiah 49:12אֲשֶׁר־ · those who
    For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
  16. Jeremiah 49:19אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Edom from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
  17. Jeremiah 49:20אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies He has devised against the people of Teman: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  18. Jeremiah 49:28אֲשֶׁ֤ר · which
    Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated, this is what the LORD says: “Rise up, advance against Kedar, and destroy the people of the east!
  19. Jeremiah 49:34אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
  20. Jeremiah 49:36אֲשֶׁ֛ר · to which
    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
  21. Jeremiah 50:1אֲשֶׁ֨ר · that
    This is the word that the LORD spoke through Jeremiah the prophet concerning Babylon and the land of the Chaldeans:
  22. Jeremiah 50:7אֲשֶׁ֨ר
    All who found them devoured them, and their enemies said, ‘We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their true pasture, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.’
  23. Jeremiah 50:15כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
  24. Jeremiah 50:18כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר · as
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I will punish the king of Babylon and his land as I punished the king of Assyria.
  25. Jeremiah 50:20לַאֲשֶׁ֥ר
    In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, a search will be made for Israel’s guilt, but there will be none, and for Judah’s sins, but they will not be found; for I will forgive the remnant I preserve.
  26. Jeremiah 50:21אֲשֶׁ֥ר · that
    Go up against the land of Merathaim, and against the residents of Pekod. Kill them and devote them to destruction. Do all that I have commanded you,” declares the LORD.
  27. Jeremiah 50:29אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
  28. Jeremiah 50:37אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
  29. Jeremiah 50:44אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan to the watered pasture. For in an instant I will chase Babylon from her land. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? For who is like Me, and who can challenge Me? What shepherd can stand against Me?”
  30. Jeremiah 50:45אֲשֶׁ֤ר · that; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Therefore hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Babylon and the strategies He has devised against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the little ones of the flock will be dragged away; certainly their pasture will be made desolate because of them.
  31. Jeremiah 51:12אֲשֶׁר־ · what
    Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
  32. Jeremiah 51:24אֲשֶׁר־
    Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.
  33. Jeremiah 51:48אֲשֶׁ֣ר · that
    Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,” declares the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 51:59אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
  35. Jeremiah 51:60אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
  36. Jeremiah 51:64אֲשֶׁ֧ר
    Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
  37. Jeremiah 52:2אֲשֶׁר־
    And Zedekiah did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.
  38. Jeremiah 52:7אֲשֶׁר֙
    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,
  39. Jeremiah 52:14אֲשֶׁ֖ר
    And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
  40. Jeremiah 52:15אֲשֶׁ֤ר · who
    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
  41. Jeremiah 52:17אֲשֶׁ֣ר; אֲשֶׁ֥ר
    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
  42. Jeremiah 52:18אֲשֶׁר־
    They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
  43. Jeremiah 52:19אֲשֶׁ֤ר · anything [made of]; וַאֲשֶׁר־
    The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
  44. Jeremiah 52:20אֲשֶׁר־ · that
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.