אשר

From Proto-Semitic *ʔaṯar-. Cognate to Arabic أَثَر (ʔaṯar, “trace, vestige, impression, relic”) and Ge'ez አሰር (ʾäsär), አሠር (ʾäśär, “trace, vestige; way, road; relic”), more closely Aramaic אֲתַר (ʾăṯar) / ܐܰܬܰܪ (ʾaṯar), doublet of אֲתָר (ʾăṯār, “spot, place”) borrowed from it,^[1] related also to the verb אָשַׁר (ʾāšár, “to go straight on, to make progress”).^[2]

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔăˈʃɛr/, [ʔaˈʃɛː.ɛʀ]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔəˈʃar/, [ʔæˈʃæːr]
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)æˈʃer/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /aˈʃɛʁ̞/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aˈʃeʁ/

אֲשֶׁר • (ashér)

1. Introduces a subordinate clause.
   1. (relativizer) who, which

      זֹאת הַמְּצִיאוּת אֲשֶׁר בָּהּ הוּא חַי

      This is the reality in which he lives.

   2. (fused relative) the thing which, the person who
      • Tanach, Genesis 9:24:

        וַיִּיקֶץ נֹחַ מִיֵּינוֹ וַיֵּדַע אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה לוֹ בְּנוֹ הַקָּטָן׃

        Noah woke up from his wine and found out what his youngest son had done to him.

      • Tanach, Judges 15:16:

        וַיֹּאמֶר כָּלֵב אֲשֶׁר־יַכֶּה אֶת־קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר וּלְכָדָהּ וְנָתַתִּי לוֹ אֶת־עַכְסָה בִתִּי לְאִשָּׁה׃

        And Caleb said, "Whoever smites Kirjath Sepher and captures it, to him I will give Achsah, my daughter, as a wife."

   3. Introduces an adverbial clause.
      1. In conjunction with another subjunction.
         • Tanach, Genesis 18:19a:

           כִּי יְדַעְתִּיו לְמַעַן אֲשֶׁר יְצַוֶּה אֶת־בָּנָיו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ אַחֲרָיו וְשָׁמְרוּ דֶּרֶךְ יְהֹוָה לַעֲשׂוֹת צְדָקָה וּמִשְׁפָּט

           For I took care of him so that he would command his sons and his house after him to keep the way of Hashem by doing righeousness and justice.

         • Tanach, Judges 11:36:

           וַתֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו אָבִי פָּצִיתָה אֶת־פִּיךָ אֶל־יְהֹוָה עֲשֵׂה לִי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָצָא מִפִּיךָ אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה לְךָ יְהֹוָה נְקָמוֹת מֵאֹיְבֶיךָ מִבְּנֵי עַמּוֹן׃

           And she said to him, "Father, you opened your mouth to Hashem. Do to me as came out of your mouth, after Hashem took revenge for you on your enemies, the childern of Ammon."

      2. (of purpose) so that, in order that
         • Tanach, Genesis 11:7:

           הָבָה נֵרְדָה וְנָבְלָה שָׁם שְׂפָתָם אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִשְׁמְעוּ אִישׁ שְׂפַת רֵעֵהוּ׃

           Come, let us descend and let us mingle their speech, so that they may not understand each other.

• The use of this conjunction as a relativizer in Modern Hebrew is somewhat archaic and formal, compared to שֶׁ־ (she-). Its other meanings are obsolete.
• In Biblical Hebrew, it can optionally be used after a subordinating conjunction which also serves as an adverb or preposition (see sense 3.1)

• שֶׁ־ (she-)
• כַּאֲשֶׁר (ka'ashér)
• בַּאֲשֶׁר (ba'ashér)

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔɔːˈʃeːr/, [ʔɔˑˈʃeː.eʀ]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ʔɔˈʃer/, [ʔɔːˈʃeːr]
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ɒˈʃer/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɔˈʃejʁ̞/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)aˈʃeʁ̞/

אָשֵׁר • (ashér) m

1. (biblical) Asher (the eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah)
2. a male given name

אֹשֶׁר • ('ósher) m

1. defective spelling of אושר

אִשֵּׁר • (ishér) (pi'el construction)

1. defective spelling of אישר

אֻשַּׁר • (ushár) (pu'al construction)

1. defective spelling of אושר

• H836 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• אשר on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

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