אֲשֶׁר
which
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H834
Strong's Hebrew
ʼăsher
Transliteration
/ash-er'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
5,502
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
(relative participle)
- which, who
- that which
- (conjunction)
- that (in object clause)
- when
- since
- as
- conditional if
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Particle
- A short function word — article, negation, interrogative, the sign of the direct object, and the like.
Grammatical forms
- Particle, Relative 5,501 times (100%)
- Pronoun, Relative 1 time (0%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5,502 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 16 of 23 — showing verses 3,001–3,200 of 4,439 distinct verses where H834 appears, across 39 books. 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.
2 Chronicles 204 verses
- 2 Chronicles 18:13 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Micaiah said, As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.
- 2 Chronicles 18:15 אֲ֠שֶׁר ptcl rel The king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Yahweh?
- 2 Chronicles 18:16 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel He said, I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and Yahweh said, These have no master; let them return every man to his house in peace.
- 2 Chronicles 18:24 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Micaiah said, Behold, you shall see on that day, when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide yourself.
- 2 Chronicles 18:30 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 19:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10 אֲ֠שֶׁר ptcl rel Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
- 2 Chronicles 20:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.
- 2 Chronicles 20:34 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 21:6 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר prep + ptcl rel He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 21:7 אֲשֶׁ֥ר וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel conj + prep + ptcl rel However Yahweh would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, and as he promised to give a lamp to him and to his children always.
- 2 Chronicles 21:12 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel There came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
- 2 Chronicles 21:16 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians:
- 2 Chronicles 22:6 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Chronicles 22:7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.
- 2 Chronicles 22:9 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel He sought Ahaziah, and they caught him (now he was hiding in Samaria), and they brought him to Jehu, and killed him; and they buried him, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with all his heart. The house of Ahaziah had no power to hold the kingdom.
- 2 Chronicles 23:3 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר prep + ptcl rel All the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. He said to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David.
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel This is the thing that you shall do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;
- 2 Chronicles 23:8 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn't dismiss the shift.
- 2 Chronicles 23:9 אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David's, which were in the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 23:18 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Yahweh under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Yahweh, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.
- 2 Chronicles 24:22 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
- 2 Chronicles 25:3 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר prep + ptcl rel Now it happened, when the kingdom was established to him, that he killed his servants who had killed the king his father.
- 2 Chronicles 25:4 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel But he didn't put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Yahweh commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.
- 2 Chronicles 25:9 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Amaziah said to the man of God, But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? The man of God answered, Yahweh is able to give you much more than this.
- 2 Chronicles 25:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Then Amaziah separated them, [to wit], the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
- 2 Chronicles 25:13 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much spoil.
- 2 Chronicles 25:15 אֲשֶׁ֛ר ptcl rel Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent to him a prophet, who said to him, Why have you sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of your hand?
- 2 Chronicles 25:18 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 25:21 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 25:27 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now from the time that Amaziah did turn away from following Yahweh they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and killed him there.
- 2 Chronicles 26:4 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
- 2 Chronicles 26:23 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 27:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done: however he didn't enter into the temple of Yahweh. The people did yet corruptly.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 28:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives, that you have taken captive of your brothers; for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you.
- 2 Chronicles 28:15 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel The men who have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all who were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers: then they returned to Samaria.
- 2 Chronicles 29:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר prep + ptcl rel Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 29:19 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 29:32 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel The number of the burnt offerings which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 30:7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel prep + ptcl rel Don't be you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
- 2 Chronicles 30:14 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 30:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.
- 2 Chronicles 31:21 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel In every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city; and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:7 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater with us than with him:
- 2 Chronicles 32:9 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 32:14 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
- 2 Chronicles 32:17 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel He wrote also letters, to rail on Yahweh, the God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.
- 2 Chronicles 32:18 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel They cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.
- 2 Chronicles 32:31 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
- 2 Chronicles 33:2 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:3 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:4 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:
- 2 Chronicles 33:8 אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
- 2 Chronicles 33:9 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 אֲשֶׁר֙ ptcl rel Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19 אֲשֶׁר֩ ptcl rel His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
- 2 Chronicles 33:22 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:4 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves [of those] who had sacrificed to them.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:10 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel They delivered it into the hand of the workmen who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and the workmen who labored in the house of Yahweh gave it to mend and repair the house;
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
- 2 Chronicles 34:16 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Shaphan carried the book to the king, and moreover brought back word to the king, saying, All that was committed to your servants, they are doing.
- 2 Chronicles 34:21 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel Go you, inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Yahweh that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר conj + ptcl rel So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.
- 2 Chronicles 34:23 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel She said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Tell you the man who sent you to me,
- 2 Chronicles 34:24 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out on this place, and it shall not be quenched.
- 2 Chronicles 34:26 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:33 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn't depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 35:3 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 35:20 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.
- 2 Chronicles 35:21 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? [I come] not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war; and God has commanded me to make haste: forbear you from [meddling with] God, who is with me, that he not destroy you.
- 2 Chronicles 35:24 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
- 2 Chronicles 36:8 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 36:13 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 36:23 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.
Ezra 19 verses
- Ezra 1:2 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has Yahweh, the God of heaven, given me; and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
- Ezra 1:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Whoever there is among you of all his people, his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Whoever is left, in any place where he sojourns, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:5 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Then rose up the heads of fathers' [houses] of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.
- Ezra 1:7 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;
- Ezra 2:1 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now these are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away to Babylon, and who returned to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his city;
- Ezra 2:2 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:
- Ezra 2:61 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Ezra 2:63 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.
- Ezra 2:68 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Some of the heads of fathers' [houses], when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
- Ezra 3:12 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' [houses], the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:
- Ezra 4:3 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers' [houses] of Israel, said to them, You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.
- Ezra 7:6 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel this Ezra went up from Babylon: and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Yahweh his God on him.
- Ezra 7:11 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Yahweh, and of his statutes to Israel:
- Ezra 7:27 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem;
- Ezra 9:11 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:
- Ezra 10:8 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel and that whoever didn't come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the assembly of the captivity.
- Ezra 10:14 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched.
- Ezra 10:18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Among the sons of the priests there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
Nehemiah 82 verses
- Nehemiah 1:2 אֲשֶֽׁר ptcl rel that Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 1:3 אֲשֶֽׁר ptcl rel They said to me, The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates of it are burned with fire.
- Nehemiah 1:6 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father's house have sinned:
- Nehemiah 1:7 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.
- Nehemiah 1:8 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, If you trespass, I will scatter you abroad among the peoples:
- Nehemiah 1:9 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel but if you return to me, and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts were in the uttermost part of the heavens, yet will I gather them from there, and will bring them to the place that I have chosen, to cause my name to dwell there.
- Nehemiah 1:10 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
- Nehemiah 2:3 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel I said to the king, Let the king live forever: why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?
- Nehemiah 2:5 אֲשֶׁ֧ר ptcl rel I said to the king, If it please the king, and if your servant have found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' tombs, that I may build it.
- Nehemiah 2:7 אֲשֶׁר֙ אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel Moreover I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through until I come to Judah;
- Nehemiah 2:8 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.
- Nehemiah 2:10 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.
- Nehemiah 2:12 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any animal with me, except the animal that I rode on.
- Nehemiah 2:13 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal's well, and to the dung gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates of it were consumed with fire.
- Nehemiah 2:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel ptcl rel Then said I to them, You see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and the gates of it are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
- Nehemiah 2:18 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king's words that he had spoken to me. They said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good [work].
- Nehemiah 2:19 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?
- Nehemiah 3:25 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Palal the son of Uzai [repaired] over against the turning [of the wall], and the tower that stands out from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh [repaired].
- Nehemiah 4:1 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֧ר prep + ptcl rel But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
- Nehemiah 4:3 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox go up, he shall break down their stone wall.
- Nehemiah 4:7 כַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel But it happened that when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very angry;
- Nehemiah 4:11 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, until we come into the midst of them, and kill them, and cause the work to cease.
- Nehemiah 4:12 כַּ/אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.
- Nehemiah 4:15 כַּֽ/אֲשֶׁר prep + ptcl rel It happened, when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and God had brought their counsel to nothing, that we returned all of us to the wall, everyone to his work.
- Nehemiah 4:20 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel in whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort you there to us; our God will fight for us.
- Nehemiah 4:23 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel So neither I, nor my brothers, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard who followed me, none of us put off our clothes, everyone [went with] his weapon [to] the water.
- Nehemiah 5:2 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.
- Nehemiah 5:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.
- Nehemiah 5:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards.
- Nehemiah 5:6 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר prep + ptcl rel I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.
- Nehemiah 5:9 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Also I said, The thing that you do is not good: ought you not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
- Nehemiah 5:11 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you exact of them.
- Nehemiah 5:12 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֖ר prep + ptcl rel Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do, even as you say. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they would do according to this promise.
- Nehemiah 5:13 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that doesn't perform this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. All the assembly said, Amen, and praised Yahweh. The people did according to this promise.
- Nehemiah 5:14 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even to the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, [that is], twelve years, I and my brothers have not eaten the bread of the governor.
- Nehemiah 5:15 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
- Nehemiah 5:17 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were round about us.
- Nehemiah 5:18 וַ/אֲשֶׁר֩ conj + ptcl rel Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
- Nehemiah 5:19 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- Nehemiah 6:1 כַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel Now it happened, when it was reported to Sanballat and Tobiah, and to Geshem the Arabian, and to the rest of our enemies, that I had built the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though even to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates;)
- Nehemiah 6:3 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
- Nehemiah 6:8 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Then I sent to him, saying, There are no such things done as you say, but you feign them out of your own heart.
- Nehemiah 6:11 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there that, being such as I, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
- Nehemiah 6:14 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Remember, my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear.
- Nehemiah 6:16 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.
- Nehemiah 6:17 וַ/אֲשֶׁ֥ר conj + ptcl rel Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and [the letters] of Tobiah came to them.
- Nehemiah 7:1 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֤ר prep + ptcl rel Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
- Nehemiah 7:6 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel These are the children of the province, who went up out of the captivity of those who had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, everyone to his city;
- Nehemiah 7:63 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Of the priests: the children of Hobaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.
- Nehemiah 7:65 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
- Nehemiah 7:72 וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר conj + ptcl rel That which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven priests' garments.
- Nehemiah 8:1 אֲשֶׁ֖ר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.
- Nehemiah 8:3 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law.
- Nehemiah 8:4 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Ezra the scribe stood on a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, [and] Meshullam.
- Nehemiah 8:12 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel All the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
- Nehemiah 8:14 אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲשֶׁר֩ ptcl rel ptcl rel They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
- Nehemiah 8:15 וַ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר conj + ptcl rel and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
- Nehemiah 9:6 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel You are Yahweh, even you alone; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all; and the host of heaven worships you.
- Nehemiah 9:7 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel You are Yahweh the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham,
- Nehemiah 9:12 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Moreover in a pillar of cloud you led them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:15 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded those who they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
- Nehemiah 9:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel and refused to obey, neither were mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn't forsake them.
- Nehemiah 9:18 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt, and had committed awful blasphemies;
- Nehemiah 9:19 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel yet you in your manifold mercies didn't forsake them in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud didn't depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Nehemiah 9:23 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
- Nehemiah 9:26 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Nehemiah 9:29 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man do, he shall live in them), and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
- Nehemiah 9:32 אֲֽשֶׁר ptcl rel Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keep covenant and loving kindness, don't let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
- Nehemiah 9:34 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.
- Nehemiah 9:35 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
- Nehemiah 9:36 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.
- Nehemiah 9:37 אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
- Nehemiah 10:29 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel They joined with their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Yahweh our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes;
- Nehemiah 10:30 וַ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר conj + ptcl rel and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;
- Nehemiah 11:3 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
- Nehemiah 12:1 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- Nehemiah 13:1 אֲ֠שֶׁר ptcl rel On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that an Ammonite and a Moabite should not enter into the assembly of God forever,
- Nehemiah 13:7 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.
- Nehemiah 13:14 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Remember me, my God, concerning this, and don't wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances of it.
- Nehemiah 13:17 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said to them, What evil thing is this that you do, and profane the Sabbath day?
- Nehemiah 13:19 כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁר֙ prep + ptcl rel ptcl rel It came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.
- Nehemiah 13:22 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the Sabbath day. Remember to me, my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of your loving kindness.
Esther 72 verses
- Esther 1:2 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
- Esther 1:9 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:12 אֲשֶׁ֖ר ptcl rel But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very angry, and his anger burned in him.
- Esther 1:15 אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
- Esther 1:16 אֲשֶׁ֕ר ptcl rel Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples who are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:18 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel This day will the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the deed of the queen say [the like] to all the king's princes. So [will there arise] much contempt and wrath.
- Esther 1:19 אֲשֶׁ֨ר ptcl rel If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it not be altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
- Esther 1:20 אֲשֶֽׁר ptcl rel When the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
- Esther 2:1 אֲשֶׁר אֲשֶׁר ptcl rel ptcl rel After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Esther 2:4 אֲשֶׁ֤ר ptcl rel and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. The thing pleased the king; and he did so.
- Esther 2:6 אֲשֶׁ֤ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר ptcl rel ptcl rel ptcl rel who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
- Esther 2:10 אֲשֶׁ֥ר ptcl rel Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
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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.
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Strong's · 1890
[idiom] after
Modern gloss
which
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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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).
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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
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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
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
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.
