אֲשֶׁר
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Every verse where H834 appears in the Book of 1 Samuel — 198 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 1:17 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
- 1 Samuel 1:24 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the child was young.
- 1 Samuel 1:27 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him:
- 1 Samuel 1:28 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he lives he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there.
- 1 Samuel 2:14 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel and he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the flesh-hook brought up the priest took therewith. So they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.
- 1 Samuel 2:16 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
- 1 Samuel 2:20 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
- 1 Samuel 2:22 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶֽׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they lay with the women who served at the door of the tent of meeting.
- 1 Samuel 2:23 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
- 1 Samuel 2:24 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel No, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: you make Yahweh's people to disobey.
- 1 Samuel 2:29 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Why kick you at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?
- 1 Samuel 2:32 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel You shall see the affliction of [my] habitation, in all the wealth which [God] shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.
- 1 Samuel 2:34 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel This shall be the sign to you, that shall come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.
- 1 Samuel 2:35 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר prep + ptcl rel I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before my anointed forever.
- 1 Samuel 3:3 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel and the lamp of God hadn't yet gone out, and Samuel had laid down [to sleep], in the temple of Yahweh, where the ark of God was;
- 1 Samuel 3:11 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
- 1 Samuel 3:12 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
- 1 Samuel 3:13 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons did bring a curse on themselves, and he didn't restrain them.
- 1 Samuel 3:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
- 1 Samuel 4:9 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
- 1 Samuel 5:12 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel The men who didn't die were struck with the tumors; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
- 1 Samuel 6:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Then they said, "What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
- 1 Samuel 6:6 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel prep + ptcl rel Why then do you harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had worked wonderfully among them, didn't they let the people go, and they departed?
- 1 Samuel 6:7 אֲשֶׁ֛ר ptcl rel Now therefore take and prepare yourselves a new cart, and two milk cattle, on which there has come no yoke; and tie the cattle to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;
- 1 Samuel 6:8 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel and take the ark of Yahweh, and lay it on the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which you return him for a trespass-offering, in a coffer by the side of it; and send it away, that it may go.
- 1 Samuel 6:15 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 6:17 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
- 1 Samuel 6:18 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, whereon they set down the ark of Yahweh, [which stone remains] to this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite.
- 1 Samuel 7:14 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel The cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and the border of it did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. There was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
- 1 Samuel 8:1 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel It happened, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
- 1 Samuel 8:6 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 8:7 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
- 1 Samuel 8:8 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.
- 1 Samuel 8:9 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now therefore listen to their voice: however you shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
- 1 Samuel 8:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel He said, This will be the manner of the king who shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them to him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;
- 1 Samuel 8:18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel You shall cry out in that day because of your king whom you shall have chosen you; and Yahweh will not answer you in that day.
- 1 Samuel 9:5 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel When they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the donkeys, and be anxious for us.
- 1 Samuel 9:6 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel He said to him, See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes surely to pass: now let us go there; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
- 1 Samuel 9:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went to the city where the man of God was.
- 1 Samuel 9:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, Behold, the man of whom I spoke to you! this same shall have authority over my people.
- 1 Samuel 9:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place, for you shall eat with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, and will tell you all that is in your heart.
- 1 Samuel 9:23 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel ptcl rel Samuel said to the cook, Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, Set it by you.
- 1 Samuel 10:2 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel When you are departed from me today, then you shall find two men by Rachel's tomb, in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will tell you, The donkeys which you went to seek are found; and, behold, your father has left off caring for the donkeys, and is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
- 1 Samuel 10:5 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
- 1 Samuel 10:7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Let it be, when these signs are come to you, that you do as occasion shall serve you; for God is with you.
- 1 Samuel 10:8 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shall you wait, until I come to you, and show you what you shall do.
- 1 Samuel 10:16 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
- 1 Samuel 10:19 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said to him, [No], but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes, and by your thousands.
- 1 Samuel 10:24 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Samuel said to all the people, "You see him whom Yahweh has chosen, that there is none like him among all the people?" All the people shouted, and said, [Long] live the king.
- 1 Samuel 10:26 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the host, whose hearts God had touched.
- 1 Samuel 11:7 אֲשֶׁר֩ ptcl rel He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
- 1 Samuel 12:1 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
- 1 Samuel 12:6 אֲשֶׁ֤ר וַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel conj + ptcl rel Samuel said to the people, It is Yahweh who appointed Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 12:7 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now therefore stand still, that I may plead with you before Yahweh concerning all the righteous acts of Yahweh, which he did to you and to your fathers.
- 1 Samuel 12:8 כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר prep + ptcl rel When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.
- 1 Samuel 12:13 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and, behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.
- 1 Samuel 12:14 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, and both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God, [well]:
- 1 Samuel 12:16 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Yahweh will do before your eyes.
- 1 Samuel 12:17 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking you a king.
- 1 Samuel 12:21 אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel and don't turn aside; for [then would you go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.
- 1 Samuel 12:24 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he has done for you.
- 1 Samuel 13:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
- 1 Samuel 13:8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel [had appointed]: but Samuel didn't come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
- 1 Samuel 13:13 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
- 1 Samuel 13:14 אֲשֶֽׁר ptcl rel But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
- 1 Samuel 13:22 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
- 1 Samuel 14:1 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his father.
- 1 Samuel 14:2 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;
- 1 Samuel 14:4 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
- 1 Samuel 14:7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart: turn you, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
- 1 Samuel 14:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
- 1 Samuel 14:14 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
- 1 Samuel 14:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.
- 1 Samuel 14:19 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
- 1 Samuel 14:20 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, [and there was] a very great confusion.
- 1 Samuel 14:21 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
- 1 Samuel 14:24 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.
- 1 Samuel 14:27 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel But Jonathan didn't hear when his father charged the people with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
- 1 Samuel 14:28 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father directly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day. The people were faint.
- 1 Samuel 14:30 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 14:43 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, behold, I must die.
- 1 Samuel 14:45 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.
- 1 Samuel 14:47 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put [them] to the worse.
- 1 Samuel 15:2 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:3 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
- 1 Samuel 15:7 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 15:14 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
- 1 Samuel 15:15 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
- 1 Samuel 15:16 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
- 1 Samuel 15:20 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh, and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 15:33 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר prep + ptcl rel Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women. Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Yahweh in Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 16:3 אֲשֶֽׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
- 1 Samuel 16:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Come you peaceably?
- 1 Samuel 16:7 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
- 1 Samuel 16:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me David your son, who is with the sheep.
- 1 Samuel 17:1 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 1 Samuel 17:13 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel The three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
- 1 Samuel 17:20 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the host which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.
- 1 Samuel 17:25 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 17:26 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
- 1 Samuel 17:27 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel The people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man who kills him.
- 1 Samuel 17:31 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
- 1 Samuel 17:37 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.
- 1 Samuel 17:40 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel He took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the shepherd's bag which he had, even in his wallet; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
- 1 Samuel 17:45 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Then said David to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
- 1 Samuel 18:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash.
- 1 Samuel 18:5 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.
- 1 Samuel 18:15 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel When Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.
- 1 Samuel 19:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel and I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will commune with my father of you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.
- 1 Samuel 19:18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
- 1 Samuel 19:22 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? One said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.
- 1 Samuel 20:13 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.
- 1 Samuel 20:19 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
- 1 Samuel 20:23 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel As touching the matter which you and I have spoken of, behold, Yahweh is between you and me forever.
- 1 Samuel 20:31 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
- 1 Samuel 20:36 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel He said to his boy, Run, find now the arrows which I shoot. As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
- 1 Samuel 20:37 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel When the boy was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the boy, and said, Isn't the arrow beyond you?
- 1 Samuel 20:40 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Jonathan gave his weapons to his boy, and said to him, Go, carry them to the city.
- 1 Samuel 21:2 אֲשֶׁר וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel conj + ptcl rel David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has commanded me a business, and has said to me, Let no man know anything of the business about which I send you, and what I have commanded you: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.
- 1 Samuel 21:7 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
- 1 Samuel 21:9 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel The priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here. David said, There is none like that; give it me.
- 1 Samuel 22:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented, gathered themselves to him; and he became captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
- 1 Samuel 22:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel David went there to Mizpeh of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Please let my father and my mother come forth, [and be] with you, until I know what God will do for me.
- 1 Samuel 22:6 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.
- 1 Samuel 22:11 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests who were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king.
- 1 Samuel 22:23 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Abide you with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life: for with me you shall be in safeguard.
- 1 Samuel 23:11 כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ prep + ptcl rel Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.
- 1 Samuel 23:13 בַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
- 1 Samuel 23:19 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doesn't David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?
- 1 Samuel 23:22 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Please go make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly.
- 1 Samuel 23:23 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 24:1 כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ prep + ptcl rel It happened, when Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told him, saying, Behold, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi.
- 1 Samuel 24:4 אֲֽשֶׁר כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
- 1 Samuel 24:5 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel It happened afterward, that David's heart struck him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt.
- 1 Samuel 24:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Behold, this day your eyes have seen how that Yahweh had delivered you today into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill you; but [my eye] spared you; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Yahweh's anointed.
- 1 Samuel 24:13 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel As says the proverb of the ancients, Out of the wicked comes forth wickedness; but my hand shall not be on you.
- 1 Samuel 24:18 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel ptcl rel You have declared this day how that you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.
- 1 Samuel 24:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away unharmed? Therefore may Yahweh reward you good for that which you have done to me this day.
- 1 Samuel 25:6 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel and thus shall you tell him who lives [in prosperity], Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now I have heard that you have shearers: your shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there anything missing to them, all the while they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 25:8 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Ask your young men, and they will tell you: therefore let the young men find favor in your eyes; for we come in a good day. Please give whatever comes to your hand, to your servants, and to your son David.
- 1 Samuel 25:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel ptcl rel Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my meat that I have killed for my shearers, and give it to men who I don't know where they come from?
- 1 Samuel 25:21 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained to him: and he has returned me evil for good.
- 1 Samuel 25:22 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one man-child.
- 1 Samuel 25:25 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Please don't let my lord regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I your handmaid didn't see the young men of my lord, whom you did send.
- 1 Samuel 25:26 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Now therefore, my lord, as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, seeing Yahweh has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal.
- 1 Samuel 25:27 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
- 1 Samuel 25:30 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel It shall come to pass, when Yahweh shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and shall have appointed you prince over Israel,
- 1 Samuel 25:32 אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel David said to Abigail, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me:
- 1 Samuel 25:33 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel and blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, that have kept me this day from blood guiltiness, and from avenging myself with my own hand.
- 1 Samuel 25:34 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel For in very deed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one man-child.
- 1 Samuel 25:35 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, Go up in peace to your house; behold, I have listened to your voice, and have accepted your person.
- 1 Samuel 25:39 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal has Yahweh returned on his own head. David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to him as wife.
- 1 Samuel 25:44 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
- 1 Samuel 26:3 אֲשֶׁ֛ר ptcl rel Saul encamped in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
- 1 Samuel 26:5 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped round about him.
- 1 Samuel 26:11 אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel Yahweh forbid that I should put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed: but now please take the spear that is at his head, and the jar of water, and let us go.
- 1 Samuel 26:16 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel This thing isn't good that you have done. As Yahweh lives, you are worthy to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, Yahweh's anointed. Now see where the king's spear is, and the jar of water that was at his head.
- 1 Samuel 26:20 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר prep + ptcl rel Now therefore, don't let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one does hunt a partridge in the mountains.
- 1 Samuel 26:21 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.
- 1 Samuel 26:23 אֲשֶׁר֩ ptcl rel Yahweh will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; because Yahweh delivered you into my hand today, and I wouldn't put forth my hand against Yahweh's anointed.
- 1 Samuel 26:24 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר prep + ptcl rel Behold, as your life was much set by this day in my eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Yahweh, and let him deliver me out of all oppression.
- 1 Samuel 27:2 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
- 1 Samuel 27:7 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel The number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.
- 1 Samuel 27:8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 27:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 28:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel David said to Achish, Therefore you shall know what your servant will do. Achish said to David, Therefore will I make you keeper of my head for ever.
- 1 Samuel 28:8 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Saul disguised himself, and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, Please divine to me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whoever I shall name to you.
- 1 Samuel 28:9 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel The woman said to him, Behold, you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: why then lay you a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
- 1 Samuel 28:17 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר prep + ptcl rel Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
- 1 Samuel 28:18 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר prep + ptcl rel Because you didn't obey the voice of Yahweh, and didn't execute his fierce wrath on Amalek, therefore has Yahweh done this thing to you this day.
- 1 Samuel 28:21 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel The woman came to Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said to him, Behold, your handmaid has listened to your voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.
- 1 Samuel 29:1 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now the Philistines gathered together all their hosts to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.
- 1 Samuel 29:3 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [to me] to this day?
- 1 Samuel 29:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?
- 1 Samuel 29:5 אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?
- 1 Samuel 29:8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?
- 1 Samuel 29:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Therefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you; and as soon as you are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.
- 1 Samuel 30:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel and had taken captive the women [and all] who were therein, both small and great: they didn't kill any, but carried them off, and went their way.
- 1 Samuel 30:4 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
- 1 Samuel 30:9 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.
- 1 Samuel 30:10 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel But David pursued, he and four hundred men; for two hundred stayed behind, who were so faint that they couldn't go over the brook Besor.
- 1 Samuel 30:14 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 30:17 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel David struck them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and there not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.
- 1 Samuel 30:18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.
- 1 Samuel 30:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel There was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.
- 1 Samuel 30:21 אֲשֶֽׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him: and when David came near to the people, he greeted them.
- 1 Samuel 30:22 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those who went with David, and said, Because they didn't go with us, we will not give them anything of the spoil that we have recovered, except to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.
- 1 Samuel 30:23 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.
- 1 Samuel 30:27 לַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel To those who were in Bethel, and to those who were in Ramoth of the South, and to those who were in Jattir,
- 1 Samuel 30:28 וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,
- 1 Samuel 30:29 וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר וְ/לַֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,
- 1 Samuel 30:30 וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel and to those who were in Hormah, and to those who were in Borashan, and to those who were in Athach,
- 1 Samuel 30:31 וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲשֶֽׁר conj + prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men used to stay.
- 1 Samuel 31:7 אֲשֶׁר וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel conj + ptcl rel When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Samuel 31:11 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard concerning him that which the Philistines had done to Saul,
About this entry
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At its core, אשר (ʼăsher) means “which.” Carrying more than one sense, it rewards its full sense range. With 4,439 verses in 39 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. First canonically at Genesis 1:7, it enters the text early. From the same root come של and שם. Dig into 4,439-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H834 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4,439
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4,439 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #5
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 5 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4,439 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 430 verses 10%
- Jeremiah 363 verses 8%
- Genesis 349 verses 8%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4,439 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2,138 verses · 48%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1,548 verses · 35%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 753 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Which 13×, That 11×, Because 10×
- American Standard Version: Which 12×, That 10×, Because 9×
- Berean Standard Bible: That 899×, Who 470×, Which 301×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: That 2,059×, Who 770×, Which 627×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H834 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 35 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H834 across 107 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H834 across 3,224 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 158 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2,258 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H834 across 5,332 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 119 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
23 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 23 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. it includes its pronominal antecedent, whether in the nom. or obl. cases, as Nu 22:6 וַאֲשֶׁר תָּאֹר יוּאָר and he whom thou cursest is cursed, Ex 4:12 and I will teach thee אֲשֶׁר תְּדַבֵּר that which thou shalt say; and with particles or prepositions, as אֵת אֲשֶׁר (according to the context) him who …, those who …, that which …; לַאֲשֶׁר to him who … Gn 43:16, to those who … 47:24, to that which 27:8; מֵאֲשֶׁר Ju 16:30 2 S 18:8 than those whom; Lv 27:24 לַאֲשֶׁר קָנָהוּ מֵאִתּוֹ to him from whom he bought it, Nu 5:7; Is 24:2 כַּאֲשֶׁר נֹשֶׁא בוֹ like him against whom there is a creditor. e.g. Numbers 22:6
- 2. instances of אֲשֶׁר followed by a pron. affix, or by שָׁם, שָֽׁמָּה, מִשָּׁם, are so common that the exx. cited above will be sufficient. Very rarely there occurs the anomalous constr. עִם אֲשֶׁר Gn 31:32 for אֲשֶׁר עִמּוֹ (see Gn 44:9), בַּאֲשֶׁר Is 47:12 for אֲשֶׁר בָּהֶם, לַאֲשֶׁר for אֲשֶׁר … לָהֶם Ez 23:40: ψ 119:49 see under על אשׁר. It is followed by the pron. in the nomin., in the foll. cases:—(a) immediately, mostly before an adj. or ptcp., Gn 9:3 all moving things אֲשֶׁר הוּא־חַי which are living, Lv 11:26 Nu 9:13; 14:8, 27; 35:31 Dt 20:20 1 S 10:19 (v. Dr) 2 K 25:19 (‖ Je 52:25 היה) Je 27:9 Ez 43:19 Hg 1:9 Ru 4:15 Ne 2:18 Ec 7:26; before a vb. 2 K 22:13 (omitted 2 Ch 34:21). (b) in a negative sentence, at the end: Gn 7:2; 17:12 Nu 17:5 Dt 17:15 אֲשֶׁר לֹא אָחִיךָ הוּא who is not thy brother, 20:15 Ju 19:12 1 K 8:41 ‖ 9:20 ‖. N.B. ψ 16:3 אֲשֶׁר בָּאָרֶץ הֵ֑מָּה is an unparalleled expression for ‘who are in the land’; read אֲשֶׁר בָּאָ֑רֶץ הֵמָּה אַדִּירֵי וג׳ ‘the saints that are in the land, they (המה) are the nobles, in whom,’ etc. e.g. Genesis 31:32
- 3. sometimes (though rarely) the defining adjunct is a pron. of 1 or 2 ps. as well as of 3 ps. In such cases it is strictly to be rendered I who …, thou who, etc.; Ho 14:4 אֲשֶׁר־בְּךָ יְרֻחַם יָתוֹם thou by whom the fatherless is compassionated! Je 31:32 I, whose covenant they brake, 32:19 Is 49:23 Jb 37:17f. thou whose garments are warm …, canst thou? etc., ψ 71:19, 20; 144:12 we whose sons, etc., 139:15 my frame was not hidden from thee, אֲשֶׁר־עֻשֵּׂיתִי בַסֵּתֶר—I who was wrought in secret (= though I was wrought in secret), Ex 14:13 for ye who have seen the Egyptians to-day,—ye shall not see them again or ever! (cf. ψ 41:9). e.g. Hosea 14:4
- 4. the defining pron. adjunct is dispensed with—
- a. when אֲשֶׁר represents the simple subj. of a sentence, or the direct obj. of a vb.: so constantly, as Gn 2:2 the work אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה which he made, 3:3 the tree אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֹךְ הַגָּן which is in the midst of the garden, etc. e.g. Genesis 2:2
- b. after words denoting time, place, or manner, so that אֲשֶׁר then becomes equivalent to when, where, why: (α) Gn 6:4 אַחֲרֵי־כֵן אֲשֶׁר afterwards, when, etc. (cf. 2 Ch 35:20) 45:6 there are still 5 years אֲשֶׁר אֵין חָרִישׁ when there shall be no plowing, Jos 14:10 1 K 22:25; after יוֹם or הַיּוֹם Dt 4:10 Ju 4:14 1 S 24:5 (v. Dr) 2 S 19:25 Je 20:14 al.; similarly Gn 40:13. (β) Gn 35:13 בַּמָּקוֹם אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר אִתּוֹ in the place where he spake with him, v 14; 39:20 Nu 13:27; 22:26 Dt 1:31 in the desert which thou sawest, where (accents Ke Di), 8:15 1 K 8:9 (unless לוּחוֹת הַבְּרִית has here fallen out: v. 𝔊 & Dt 9:9) Is 55:11; 64:10 ψ 84:4. So (γ) in אֶל אֲשֶׁר to (the place) which (or whither) Ex 32:34 Ru 1:16; אֶל־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר to every (place) whither Jos 1:16 Pr 17:8; בַּאֲשֶׁר in (the place) where †Ju 5:27; 17:8, 9 1 S 23:13 2 K 8:1 Ru 1:16, 17 Jb 39:30, once only with שָׁם Gn 21:17; בְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר wheresoever Jos 1:7, 9 Ju 2:15 1 S 14:47; 18:5 2 S 7:7 2 K 18:7; מֵאֲשֶׁר from (the place) where = whencesoever †Ex 5:11 Ru 2:9; עַל־אֲשֶׁר to (the place) whither (or which) 2 S 15:20 1 K 18:12; עַל־כָּל־אֲשֶׁר Je 1:7. (δ) זֶה הַדָּבָר אֲשֶׁר … this is the reason that or why … Jos 5:4 1 K 11:27. e.g. Genesis 6:4
- c. more extreme instances Lv 14:22, 30, 31 Nu 6:21, Dt 7:19 (wherewith), 28:20 1 S 2:32 1 K 2:26 (wherein), Ju 8:15 (about whom), Is 8:12 (where יאמר would be foll. normally by לוֹ), 31:6 turn ye to (him as to) whom they have deeply rebelled, 47:15 Zp 3:11 Ec 3:9, 1 K 14:19 (= how). e.g. Leviticus 14:22
- d. it is dispensed with only in appearance after (אָמַרְתִּי וג׳) אֲשֶׁר אָמַר followed by the words used, its place being really taken by a pron. in the speech which follows, as Gn 3:17 the tree as to which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat from it, Ex 22:8 Dt 28:68 Ju 7:4 (זֶה) 8:15 (where the noun repeated takes the place of the pron., cf. Dt 9:2) 1 S 9:17 (זֶה)23 1 K 11:2 +; cf. 2 S 11:16 2 K 17:12; 21:4. e.g. Genesis 3:17
- 5. אֲשֶׁר sometimes in poet. = one who, a man who (men who), ὅστις, οἵτινες, ψ 24:4; 55:20; 95:4, 5 Jb 4:19; 5:5; 9:5, (Hi) 15, 17. e.g. Psalms 24:4
- 6. אֲשֶׁר occas. receives its closer definition by a subst. following it, in other words, its logical antecedent is inserted in the rel. clause: (a) in the phrase peculiar to Je., אֲשֶׁר הָיָה דְבַר י׳ אֶל יר׳ that which came (of) the word of י׳ to Je. †14:1; 46:1; 47:1; 49:34 (cf. Ew§ 334); (b) Ex 25:9 Nu 33:4 1 S 25:30 2 K 8:12, 12:6 לְכֹל אֲשֶׁר־יִמָּצֵא שָׁם בָּֽדֶק׃, Ez 12:25; cf. the Ethiopic usage Di§ 201; (c) (antec. repeated) Gn 49:30 = 50:13, 1 S 25:39 (י׳ repeated), Is 54:9 (prob.) as to which I sware that, etc., Am 5:1 which I take up over you (as) a dirge. e.g. Jeremiah 14:1
- 7. אֲשֶׁר ל׳ that (belongs, belong, belonged) to, is used
- a. either alone or preceded by כָּל־ to express (all) that (belongs) to, as Gn 14:23 מִכָּל־אֲשֶׁר־לָ֑ךְ of all that is thine, 31:1 מֵאֲשֶׁר לְאָבִינוּ of that which was our father’s 32:24 & sent over אֶת־אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ that which he had, + often e.g. Genesis 14:23
- b. as a circumlocution of the genitive, as Gn 29:9 עִם־הַצֹּאן אֲשֶׁר לְאָבִיהָ with the sheep that were her father’s, 40:5; 47:4, Lv 9:8; Ju 6:11; 1 S 25:7 הָרֹעִים אֲשֶׁר־לְךָ, 2 S 14:31 אֶת־הַחֶלְקָה אֲשֶׁר־לִי, 23:8; 1 K 1:8, 33 עַל הַפִּרְדָּה אֲשֶׁר־לִי upon mine own mule, v 49; 4:2; 2 K 11:10; 16:13 Ru 2:21; and especially in the case of a compound expression depending on a single genit., as Gn 23:9; 40:5; 41:43 מִרְכֶּבֶת הַמִּשְׁנֶה אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ the chariot of the second rank which he had, Ex 38:30; Ju 3:20; 6:25; 1 S 17:40; 21:8, אֲבִיר הָרֹעִים אֲשֶׁר לְשָׁאוּל the mightiest of Saul’s herdmen, 24:5 אֶת־כְּנַף־הַמְּעִיל אֲשֶׁר־לְשָׁאוּל, 2 S 2:8 Saul’s captain of the host, 1 K 10:28; 15:20; 22:31; Je 52:17; Ru 4:3. e.g. Genesis 29:9
- c. with names of places (especially such as do not readily admit the st. cstr.) Ju 18:28; 19:14 הַגִּבְעָה אֲשֶׁר לְבִנְיָמִן Gibeah (the hill) of Benjamin, 20:4; 1 S 17:1; 1 K 15:27; 16:15; 17:9; 19:3; 2 K 14:11. Comp. שֶׁל (q.v.) which in Rabb., like the Aramaic דִּיל-, ܕܺܝܠ, is in habitual use as a mark of the genitive.—N.B. In Aramaic also דּי, ܕ, without ל, expresses the gen. relation, as מִלְּתָא דִי־מַלְכָּא, lit. the word, that of the king = the word of the king. The few apparent cases of a similar use of אשׁר are, however, too foreign to the general usage of the language to be regarded otherwise than as due to textual error: 1 S 13:8 read אֲשֶׁר אָמַר (or שָׂם Ex 9:5) שְׁמוּאֵל (𝔊 εἶπε); 1 K 11:25 supply עָשָׂה (𝔊 ἣν ἐποίησεν); 2 K 25:10 supply אֵת with (as ‖ Je 52:14); 2 Ch 34:22 read וַאֲשֶׁר אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ (cf. 𝔊) and those whom the king appointed (abbreviated from 2 K 22:14); cf. Ew§ 292 a, b with note. e.g. Judges 18:28
- 8. אֲשֶׁר becomes, like Aramaic דּי, ܕ, a conj. approximating in usage to כִּי: thus
- a. = quod, ὅτι, that, subordinating an entire sentence to a verb of knowing, remembering, etc. (α) with אֵת Dt 9:7 forget not אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִקְצַפְתָּ the fact that (= how) thou provokedst, etc., 29:15; Jos 2:10; 1 S 24:11, 19; 2 S 11:20 know ye not אֵת אֲשֶׁר־יֹרוּ how they shoot from off the wall? 2 K 8:12 Is 38:3 + often. As subj. (rare) 1 K 14:19; 2 K 14:15; 20:20. Of time (peculiarly) †2 S 14:15 עַתָּה אֲשֶׁר now (is it) that … Zc 8:20 (prob.) yet (shall it be) that … v 23; cf. כִּמְעַט שֶׁ Ct 3:4. (β) without אֵת (not very common, כִּי being usually employed): after יָדַע Ex 11:7; Nu 32:23; Ez 20:26 (strange in Ez: v. Hi) Jb 9:5 (Ew De Di) Ec 8:12, רָאָה Dt 1:31 (RV) 1 S 18:15, הִתְוַדָּה to confess Lv 5:5; 26:40b, הִשְׁבִּיעַ 1 K 22:16 (caused to swear that …); after a noun Is 38:7 הָאוֹת אֲשֶׁר the sign that … (‖ 2 K 20:9 כִּי) with growing frequency in late Hebrew, 2 Ch 2:7, and especially Ne Est: Ne 2:5, 10; 7:65 (= Ezr 2:63) 8:14, 15; 10:31; 13:1, 19, 22; Est 1:19; 2:10; 3:4; 4:11; 6:2; 8:11; Ec 3:22 (מֵאֲשֶׁר) 5:4; 7:18 (with טוֹב: contrast Ru 2:22) v 22, 29; 8:12, 14; 9:1; Dn 1:8(×2). (γ) prefixed to a direct citation, like כִּי q.v. (= ὅτι recitativum) (rare) 1 S 15:20; 2 S 1:4; 2:4 (v. Dr) ψ 10:6 (prob.), Ne 4:6. e.g. Deuteronomy 9:7
- b. it is resolvable into so that: Gn 11:7 אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִשְׁמְעוּ so that they understand not, etc., 13:16; 22:14 אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר so that it is said, Ex 20:26; Dt 4:10, 40 אֲשֶׁר יִיטַב לְךָ 6:3; 28:27, 51; 1 K 3:12, 13; 2 K 9:37; Mal 3:19. e.g. Genesis 11:7
- c. it has a causal force, forasmuch as, in that, since: Gn 30:18; 31:49 and Mizpah, אֲשֶׁר אָמַר for that he said. 34:13, 27; 42:21 we are guilty, אֲשֶׁר רָאִינוּ we who saw (or, in that we saw), Nu 20:13 Meribah, because they strove there, Dt 3:24; Jos 4:7, 23; 22:31; Ju 9:17; 1 S 2:23; 15:15; 20:42 go in peace, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְנוּ forasmuch as we have sworn, 25:26 thou whom (= or, seeing that) י׳ hath withholden, 2 S 2:5 blessed are ye of י׳, אֲשֶׁר עֲשִׂיתֶם, who (οἵτινες) have done (or in that ye have done), 1 K 3:19; 15:5; 2 K 12:3; 17:4; 23:26; Je 16:13; Ec 8:11, 12 (Hi De Now). Here also belongs its use in אֲשֶׁר לָמָּה since why …? (= lest) Dn 1:10: v. sub לָמָּה. On אֲשֶׁר עַל כֵּן forasmuch as Jb 34:27 v. sub כִּי עַל כֵּן. e.g. Genesis 30:18
- d. it expresses a condition (rare & peculiar): Lv 4:22 אֲשֶׁר נָשִׂיא יֶחֱטָא in (case) that = when (or if) a ruler sinneth (v 3, 13, 27 אִם) 25:33; Nu 5:29 (explained differently by Ew§ 334a), Dt 11:27 and the blessing אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְעוּ if ye hearken (v 28 אִם), 18:22 Ges§ 159 cc Jos 4:21 אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁאָלוּן … when they ask …, then … (v 6 כִּי), Is 31:4. In 1 K 8:33 (‖ 2 Ch 6:24 כִּי, cf. K v 35, 37) אֲשֶׁר may be rendered indifferently because or when. Once, similarly, אֵת אֲשֶׁר 1 K 8:31 v. p. 85. e.g. Leviticus 4:22
- e. perhaps (exceptionally) = כַּאֲשֶׁר, as, Je 33:22; Is 54:9 (sq. כֵּן; but כֵּן q.v. sometimes stands without כאשׁר, & אשׁר may in these passages connect with what precedes); according to some also Je 48:8 ψ 106:34 (in a connexion where כַּאֲשֶׁר would be more usual: אֲשֶׁר may however be the obj. of אָמַר). In 1 S 16:7 אֲשֶׁר יִרְאֶה הָאָדָם read כַּאֲשֶׁר, v. Dr.In Dt 15:14 also read כַּאֲשֶׁר: note ברכך before. e.g. Jeremiah 33:22
- f. combined with preps., אֲשֶׁר converts them into conjunctions: see below, בַּאֲשֶׁר, כַּאֲשֶׁר, מֵאֲשֶׁר. On its use similarly with (אַחֲרֵי) אַחַר, מִבְּלִי, בַּעֲבוּר, עַל דְּבַר, יַעַן, לְמַעַן, כְּפִי, עַד, עַל, עֵקֶב, מִפְּנֵי, תַּחַת, see these words.—הַאֲשֶׁר, with ה interrog., occurs once, 2 K 6:22. e.g. 2 Kings 6:22
- 1. אֲשֶׁר being a connecting link, without any perfectly corresponding equivalent in Engl., its force is not unfreq. capable of being represented in more than one way. See e.g. 2 S 2:5 (above 8 c), Is 28:12 unto whom he said, or for that he said to them. e.g. 2 Samuel 2:5
- 2. The opinion that אֲשֶׁר has an asseverative force (like כִּי, q.v.), or introduces the apodosis, is not prob., being both alien to its general usage & not required by the passages alleged. Render Is 8:20 either ‘Surely according to this word will those speak who have no dawn,’ or ‘… will they speak when (cf. supr. 8 d Dt 11:27; Jos 4:21) they have no dawn.’ e.g. Isaiah 8:20
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Word origin
part. of relation (Moab. id.; origin dub.: 1. according to TsepreghiDiss. Lugd. p. 171 MühlauBö Lb. ii. 79 n. StaMorg. Forsch. 1875, 188; Lb. § 167 HomZMG 1878, 708 ff. Müll§ 153 SayceHbr. ii. 51 LagM. i. 255 & especially KraetzschmarHbr. vi. 298 ff, orig. a subst. ‘place’ = أَثَرٌ footstep, mark አሠr (do.), אֲתַר, ܐܰܬܰܪ place, Assyrian ašar, used (v. Kraetz.) both as a subst. ‘there, where,’ and as a relative of place ‘where’: in Heb. this development has advanced further, and it has become a relative sign generally. The chief objection to this explanation is that it would isolate Heb. from the other Semitic languages, in which pronouns are formed regularly from demonstrative roots (cf. also NöZMG 1886, 738). 2. according to PhiSt. C. 73 SperlingNota Rel. im Hebr. 1876, 15–22 for אֲשֶׁל, developed from the relative שׁ (q.v.) by (1) the prefixing of either a merely prosthetic א, or, better, a pronominal א (giving rise to אש, the form of the relative in Ph.), and (2) the addition of the demonstr. root ל [found also in אֵל, אֵלֶּה, הַלָּזֶה (q.v.). اَلَّذِى he who, እለ who (pl.)]: the main objection to this explanation is the change of ל to ר, which is hardly rendered probable by the comp. of Syriac ܗܳܪܟܳܐ by side of Targ. הָלְכָּא. 1 seems preferable, the primitive root having acquired different significations in the different Semitic languages, and having been weakened in Heb. to a mere particle of relation). A sign of relation, bringing the clause introduced by it into relation with an antecedent clause. As a rule אֲשֶׁר is a mere connecting link, and requires to be supplemented (see the grammars) by a pron. affix, or other word, such as שָׁם, defining the nature of the relation more precisely: e.g. Gn 1:11 אֲשֶׁר זַרְעוֹ־בוֹ lit. as to which, its seed is in it = in which is its seed, ψ 1:4 like the chaff אֲשֶׁר־תִּדְּפֶנּוּ רוּחַ as to which, the wind drives it = which the wind drives, etc.; & so אֲשֶׁר … שָׁם = where, אֲשֶׁר … מִשָּׁם = whence, Gn 2:11; 3:23; 20:13 etc. Sometimes also (v. infr.) the relation expressed by it is specifically temporal, local, causal, etc. More particularly
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Origin: a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲשֶׁר
- ; v. Ges. H. Dict. s. v., as to opinions on etymol.) [being,] who, which. Ber. 11ᵇ א׳ בחר וכ׳ who hast chosen us; a. v. fr. (in prayer formulas).—In Talm. mostly prefix-שֶׁ.
אָשַׁר
- , v. אשש) to exist, be strong, happy; v. יָשַׁר.
- (b. h.)
- 1. to exalt, praise, declare happy. Pesik. R. s. 45 התחיל מְאַשְּׁרֵם he commenced by declaring them happy; v. אַשְׁרֵי.
- 2. to substantiate; to verify, attest to. Num. R. s. 14 לאַשֵּׁר את הדין to give strength to the legal decision Y. Gitt. IX, 50ᶜ bot. (אישרניהי) אִישַּׁרְנוּהוּ we have verified it in the presence of &c.—Part. pass. מְאוּשָּׁר 1) firm, strong. Gen. R. s. 15, beg. the bux-tree is called תְּאַשּׁוּר because it is מא׳ וכ׳ the strongest of all (cmp. אֵשֶׁל). Y. Succ. III, 54ᵃ top; Y. Meg. I, 72ᵃ top המא׳ שבכלן וכ׳ the strongest (expression) of all, is Hallelujah.—2) substantial, good, rich. Gen. R. s. 90, end (ref. to את כל אֲשֶׁר Gen. XLI, 56) המְאוּשָּׁרִין שבהם the best stores of all. Gen. R. s. 28.—Snh. 22ᵃ is called Ashurith שמְאוּשֶּׁרֶת בכתב because its characters are substantial (Ar. שמאושר); Y. Meg. I, 71ᵇ bot.; Y. Sot. VII, 21ᶜ top. e.g. Genesis 41:56
- to be set up, be erected. Sifra K’dosh. beg. (play on אֲשֵׁרִים) על שם שהם מִתְאַשְּׁרִים מאחרים because they are put up by others.
אֲשַׁר
- [Ithpe. אִיתְּשַׁר to be strengthened. Targ. Y. Deut. X, 2 יַיתְשַׁר, prob. to be read יִתְיַשַּׁר, v. ישר.]
- 1. to make strong. Keth. 10ᵇ; Gitt. 70ᵃ (dates) מְאַשְּׁרָן give strength.
- 2. to confirm, verify; also to credit, (consider true). Keth. 21ᵃ אַשַּׁרְנוּהִי וכ׳ we verified it &c., v. preced.—Gitt. 30ᵇ (prov.) חברך מית א׳ וכ׳ if you are told, ‘your friend is dead’, believe it; ‘your friend has grown rich’ לא תְאַשַּׁר don’t trust.
אֶשֶׁר
- (b. h.), only in plur. constr. אַשְׁרֵי the happiness of!, happy is he, are they &c. Pes. 117ᵃ; a. fr.—Midr. Till. to Ps. LXXXIV אַשְׁרַאי happy am I.—Yoma VIII, 9 אַשְׁרֵיכֶם happy are ye. Ib. 87ᵃ אַשְׁרֵיהֶם לצדיקים happy are the righteous; a. fr.
שֵׁר
- Tower of Sher (or Shed), Straton’s Tower (v. Hildesh. Beitr. p. 4 sq.). Sifré Deut. 51 מדבר שרשך דור, read: מגדל שר שן דור; Yalk. ib. 874 מגדל שרשן דירו (corr. acc.); Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᶜ top מגדל שיד.
שַׂר
- prince, chief.; שר (של מעלה) guardian angel, genius. Zeb. 116ᵇ שר ונגיד a prince or a nobleman. Yeb. 16ᵇ שר העולם the genius of the universe; Ḥull. 60ᵃ. Ex. R. s. 22 נטל הקב"ה שר שלהם וכ׳ the Lord took first their (the Egyptians’) guardian angel and drowned him. Pes. 118ᵃ שר הברד, v. יוּרְקָמִי. Ib. אני שר של אש I (Gabriel) am the angel of fire. B. Bath. 74ᵇ שר של ים the angel of the sea. Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 2 כיון שראו שָׂרָהּ של מלכות נופל (not נופלת) when they saw the genius of the (Egyptian) empire fallen; Yalk. Ex. 243; a. v. fr.—Pl. שָׂרִים. Ib. אין … משָׂרֵיהֶן תחלה the Lord will not punish governments, unless he have punished their guardian angels first. Gen. R. s. 78, beg. מיכאל … שהם ש׳ של מעלה Michael and Gabriel who are the princes on high. Yalk. l. c. קרא … לכל שָׂרֵי האומות the Lord summoned all the tutelary angels of the nations. Cant. R. to VIII, 14 ש׳ של מעלה the princes on high (angels); ש׳ של מטה the earthly (human) governors. Ib. (play on הרי בשמים, ib.) המתינו לי … על הריהם שהם שָׂרֵיהֶם שנתונים אצלי בַּשָּׁמַיִם (not שנתונות) wait until I shall have sat in judgment over their mounts, that is, their chiefs that are placed with me in heaven; a. fr.—Gen. R. s. 98 גני ש׳, v. גִּינֵּיסַר.—Fem. שָׂרָה. Tosef. Ber. I, 12 (ref. to Gen. XVII, 15) בתחלה הרי היא ש׳ על עמה ועכשיו הרי היא ש׳ על אומות העולם ed. Zuck. (Var. שָׂרַי על עמה … על כל באי העולם, v. ed. Zuck. note) at first she was a princess of her own people, and now she is a princess for the nations of the world (for all that enter into the world); Ber. 13ᵃ שרי לאומתה … ש׳ לכל העולם. e.g. Genesis 17:15
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Forms in the corpus
The 104 distinct written forms H834 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Amos 1:1 | 1,293 |
| אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 9:15 | 1,064 |
| אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 5:26 | 976 |
| אֲשֶׁ֨ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 2:9 | 499 |
| אֲשֶׁ֤ר | Particle, Relative | Daniel 1:11 | 304 |
| אֲשֶׁ֖ר | Particle, Relative | Daniel 1:8 | 179 |
| אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Amos 4:1 | 129 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 5:14 | 109 |
| אֲשֶׁ֧ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 3:1 | 98 |
| אֲשֶׁר֩ | Particle, Relative | Amos 1:1 | 96 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 2:1 | 78 |
| אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 8:11 | 71 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 3:2 | 69 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 1:11 | 57 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 5:19 | 52 |
| אֲשֶֽׁר | Particle, Relative | Amos 4:7 | 44 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר | Particle, Relative | Amos 2:13 | 41 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 5:8 | 34 |
| אֲ֠שֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Exodus 9:24 | 21 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 11:2 | 20 |
| אֲֽשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 27:3 | 17 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁר֩ | Particle, Relative | Amos 3:12 | 17 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 4:33 | 15 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר | Particle, Relative | Ecclesiastes 10:14 | 12 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 11:6 | 12 |
| מֵ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Exodus 29:27 | 10 |
| כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Ezekiel 2:2 | 10 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 2:12 | 8 |
| וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Genesis 47:24 | 7 |
| כַּ/אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Genesis 26:29 | 7 |
| לַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Exodus 16:16 | 7 |
| אֲשֶׁ֕ר | Particle, Relative | Esther 1:16 | 6 |
| בַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Genesis 39:9 | 6 |
| כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | 1 Samuel 12:8 | 6 |
| בַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Ecclesiastes 8:4 | 5 |
| כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Particle, Relative | Genesis 7:9 | 5 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Esther 4:16 | 4 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר | Particle, Relative | 2 Samuel 21:5 | 4 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר | Particle, Relative | 1 Kings 2:24 | 4 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 33:29 | 4 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Daniel 1:4 | 4 |
| וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר | Particle, Relative | Ecclesiastes 9:2 | 3 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Particle, Relative | Ezekiel 33:27 | 3 |
| וַ/אֲשֶׁר֩ | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 19:5 | 3 |
| וּ/בַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר | Particle, Relative | Isaiah 65:12 | 3 |
| כַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Isaiah 66:22 | 3 |
| כַ/אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 2:16 | 3 |
| כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 32:50 | 3 |
| לַ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר | Particle, Relative | Jeremiah 27:5 | 3 |
| מֵ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר | Particle, Relative | Ecclesiastes 3:22 | 3 |
| אֲ֝שֶׁ֗ר | Particle, Relative | Psalms 119:38 | 2 |
| אֲשֶׁ֗ר | Particle, Relative | Ezekiel 6:11 | 2 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר | Particle, Relative | Esther 9:31 | 2 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Particle, Relative | Daniel 1:13 | 2 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר | Particle, Relative | Deuteronomy 29:13 | 2 |
| וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֨ר | Particle, Relative | Genesis 26:29 | 2 |
| וְ/כַֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Ezekiel 37:18 | 2 |
| וְ/לַ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר | Particle, Relative | 1 Samuel 30:28 | 2 |
| וַֽ/אֲשֶׁר֙ | Particle, Relative | Ezekiel 33:27 | 2 |
| כַּ֝/אֲשֶׁ֗ר | Particle, Relative | Psalms 33:22 | 2 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 44 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H834, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
Most of the 4,439 Hebrew verses this word occurs in also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), so the same passages can be read in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:7
- Exodus 1:8
- Leviticus 1:5
- Numbers 1:5
- Deuteronomy 1:1
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 1:7
- Ruth 1:7
- 1 Samuel 1:17
- 2 Samuel 1:4
- 1 Kings 1:8
- 2 Kings 1:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.