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אֲשֶׁר

asher

H834 · Hebrew / Aramaic

(81c); a prim. pron.; who, which, that; because, since:--

LSB renderings

after*(1), although(1), and those who(1), anyone(1), because(43), because*(69), because of what*(1), because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who*(1), because this nation has trespassed against my covenant which*(1), before*(2), before the evil days happen and the years draw near in which*(1), concerning*(1), everyone*(2), everything*(2), everywhere*(2), how(19), how*(6), how I have been broken over their adulterous hearts which(1), how the hand of my god had been good to me and also about the king's words which(1), how we came through the midst of the nations through which(1), how Yahweh dried up the water of the red sea before you when you came out of Egypt and what*(1), if(7), inasmuch(1), inasmuch*(2), just(2), just*(6), just as(1), much(1), reason(1), set(1), since(3), since*(5), so(3), so*(1), so that(7), steward*(4), storehouses(1), such(8), such as none of the kings who*(1), than*(1), that(7), there*(1), therefore(1), these(2), this(2), those who(1), though*(1), unless*(1), until*(32), until I have done what*(1), until I cross over the Jordan into the land which*(1), what(158), what*(7), whatever(17), whatever*(36), whatever the purpose for which*(1), what I have not done and the like of which(1), what your servant did wrong on the day when(1), what Micah had made and the priest who(1), when(39), whenever(1), when a leader sins and unintentionally does any one of all the things which(1), when you cross the Jordan to the land which(1), where(47), where*(127), whereas*(1), whereby(1), wherein(1), wherever(4), wherever*(28), where the king had magnified him and how(1), where the nations whom*(1), where the priests who*(1), where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and where*(1), where you saw how(1), where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom*(1), which(1885), which*(3), whichever(1), which I have given to the sons of Israel because*(1), which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where*(1), which the man of god who(1), which were for the destruction of those whom(1), which were beyond the river or the gods of the Amorites in whose(1), which he labored because(1), which he showed and how(1), which he wrote to cause the Jews who(1), which they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder*(1), which they did so as to provoke me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods whom(1), which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah had cut a covenant with all the people who(1), which Haman made for Mordecai who(1), which swarms in every place where*(1), which Yahweh will plague all the peoples who(1), which Yahweh plagues the nations who(1), while(1), who(823), whoever(3), whoever*(10), whoever shall mix any like it or whoever*(1), whoever will not listen to my words which*(1), whom(338), whomever(1), whomever*(2), whom it is mentioned will be in dread of it because of the counsel of Yahweh of hosts which*(1), whom Yahweh had sworn that he would not let them see the land which(1), whose(76), whose stump remains when(1), who are with her in the house shall live because she hid the messengers whom(1), who did not know Yahweh or even the work which(1), who had returned from all the nations to which(1), who has done these great and fearsome things for you which(1), who have not established the words of the covenant which(1), who have sinned against you and all their transgressions which(1), who is among you shall be glad in all the good which(1), who permits any of the men whom(1), who were with him lifted their voices and wept until*(1), who were left after them in the land whom(2), who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which(1), who did these great signs in our sight and kept us through all the way in which(1), who died from the hailstones than those whom*(1), who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which(1), who ministered as the priest in the house which(1), who saw all the great work of Yahweh which(1), who speaks a word presumptuously in my name which(1), why(2).

Occurs in 44 versesrendered “because” · Show all renderings

  • Gen 30:18And Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant-woman to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
  • Gen 34:13But Jacob’s sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, and thus they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister.
  • Gen 34:27Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they had defiled their sister.
  • Gen 39:9“There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”
  • Gen 39:23The chief jailer did not supervise anything under Joseph’s hand because Yahweh was with him; and whatever he did, Yahweh made to succeed.
  • Gen 42:21Then they said to one another, “Surely we are guilty concerning our brother because we saw the distress of his soul when he begged us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.”
  • Ex 6:5“Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel because the Egyptians are holding them in slavery, and I have remembered My covenant.
  • Lev 21:3also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.
  • Num 20:13Those were the waters of Meribah because the sons of Israel contended with Yahweh, and He proved Himself holy among them.
  • Deut 23:4because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.
  • Deut 28:20“Yahweh will send upon you the curse, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you send forth your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.
  • Josh 4:7then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”
  • Josh 5:6For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, were completely destroyed because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, to whom Yahweh had sworn that He would not let them see the land which Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
  • Josh 22:31And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is in our midst because you have not committed this unfaithful act against Yahweh; so then you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of Yahweh.”
  • Judg 6:27So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as Yahweh had spoken to him; and now it happened that because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.
  • 1 Sam 26:16“This thing that you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives, all of you must surely die because you did not keep watch over your lord, the anointed of Yahweh. So now, see where the king’s spear is and the jug of water that was at his head.”
  • 2 Sam 2:5And David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, “May you be blessed of Yahweh because you have shown this lovingkindness with your lord, with Saul, and have buried him.
  • 2 Sam 2:6“So now, may Yahweh show lovingkindness and truth to you; and I also will show this goodness to you, because you have done this thing.
  • 1 Kgs 2:32“And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
  • 1 Kgs 3:19“And this woman’s son died in the night because she lay on him.
  • 1 Kgs 8:33“When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,
  • 1 Kgs 15:5because David did what was right in the sight of Yahweh, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
  • 1 Kgs 15:13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image for Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and burned it at the brook Kidron.
  • 2 Kgs 17:26So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have taken away into exile and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and behold, they are putting them to death because they do not know the custom of the god of the land.”
  • 2 Kgs 19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.’
  • 2 Chr 15:16He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.
  • Psalm 31:7I will rejoice and be glad in Your lovingkindness,Because You have seen my affliction;You have known the troubles of my soul,
  • Psalm 55:19God will hear and answer them—Even the one who sits enthroned from of old— Selah.Because they do not change,And do not fear God.
  • Eccl 4:9Two are better than one because they have good wages for their labor.
  • Eccl 7:2Better to go to a house of mourningThan to go to a house of feastingBecause that is the end of all mankind,And the living puts this in his heart.
  • Eccl 8:11Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.
  • Eccl 8:13But it will not be well for the wicked man, and he will not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God openly.
  • Isa 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.
  • Isa 37:21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,
  • Isa 65:7Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says Yahweh.“Because they have burned incense on the mountainsAnd reproached Me on the hills,Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”
  • Isa 65:16Because he who is blessed in the earthWill be blessed by the God of truth,And he who swears in the earthWill swear by the God of truth;Because the former distresses are forgotten,And because they are hidden from My sight!
  • Jer 13:25“This is your lot, the portion measured to youFrom Me,” declares Yahweh,“Because you have forgotten MeAnd trusted in lies.
  • Jer 20:17Because he did not put me to death from the womb,So that my mother would have been my grave,And her womb ever pregnant.
  • Jer 32:3because Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, “Why do you prophesy, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it;
  • Ezek 29:20“I have given him the land of Egypt for his work which he labored because they acted for Me,” declares Lord Yahweh.
  • Dan 9:8“O Yahweh, to us belongs open shame, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
  • Mic 3:4Then they will cry out to Yahweh,But He will not answer them.Instead, He will hide His face from them at that timeBecause they have practiced evil deeds.
  • Hab 3:16I heard, and my inward parts trembled;At the sound my lips tingled.Decay enters my bones,And in my place I tremble.Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress,For the people to arise who will invade us.
  • Zech 11:2Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen,Because the mighty trees have been destroyed;Wail, O oaks of Bashan,For the impenetrable forest has come down.
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