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אֲשֶׁר

asher

ash-er'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼăsher

who, which, what, that

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.

Rendered in the KJV as

[idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.

  • 5,497
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 2 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 43
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 43

  • אֲשֶׁר־137
  • אֲשֶׁ֥ר99
  • אֲשֶׁ֣ר91
  • אֲשֶׁ֤ר33
  • אֲשֶׁ֨ר29
  • אֲשֶׁ֖ר17
  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר14
  • אֲשֶׁר֙11
  • אֲשֶׁר֩8
  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֖ר6
  • אֲשֶׁ֧ר3
  • אֲשֶׁ֤ר׀3

and 31 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 30

  • which199
  • that66
  • who60
  • whom50
  • just as38
  • [that] which20
  • where17
  • when6
  • [those] who5
  • just when4
  • [anyone] whom3
  • [one] who3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 4

  • relative particle (“who / which”)443
  • preposition + relative particle (“who / which”)48
  • conjunction (“and”) + relative particle (“who / which”)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + relative particle (“who / which”)3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTr · 443
  • HR/Tr · 48
  • HC/Tr · 6
  • HC/R/Tr · 3

The first 500 of 5,497, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis404 occurrences
Psalms96 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).