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Lexicon :: Strong's H834 - 'ăšer

Aa
אֲשֶׁר
Transliteration
'ăšer
Pronunciation
ash-er'
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Part of Speech
conjunction, relative pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 184

Variant Spellings

The following spelling is supported by Strongs and Gesenius: אשר.

Strong’s Definitions

אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher, ash-er'; a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.:—× after, × alike, as (soon as), because, × every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), × if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), × though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 111x

The KJV translates Strong's H834 in the following manner: which, wherewith, because, when, soon, whilst, as if, as when, that, until, much, whosoever, whereas, wherein, whom, whose.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 111x
The KJV translates Strong's H834 in the following manner: which, wherewith, because, when, soon, whilst, as if, as when, that, until, much, whosoever, whereas, wherein, whom, whose.
  1. (relative part.)

    1. which, who

    2. that which

  2. (conj)

    1. that (in obj clause)

    2. when

    3. since

    4. as

    5. conditional if

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲשֶׁר ʼăsher, ash-er'; a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.:—× after, × alike, as (soon as), because, × every, for, + forasmuch, + from whence, + how(-soever), × if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), × though, + until, + whatsoever, when, where (+ -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, + whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
STRONGS H834: Abbreviations
אֲשֶׁר particle of relation (Moabite id.); origin dubious:
1. according to TsepreghiDiss. Lugd. p. 171 MühlauBö. Lb. ii. 79 n. StaMorg. Forsch. 1875, 188; Lb. § 167 HomZMG 1878, 708 ff. Müll§ 153 SayceHebraica. ii. 51 LagM. i. 255 & especially KraeHebraica. vi. 298 ff, originally a substantive 'place' = bdb008104 footstep, mark, bdb008105 (do.), אֲתַר, bdb008106 place, Assyrian ašru, used (see Kraetz.) both as a substantive 'there, where,' and as a relative of place 'where': in Hebrew this development has advanced further, and it has become a relative sign generally. The chief objection to this explanation is that it would isolate Hebrew from the other Semitic languages, in which pronouns are formed regularly from demonstrative roots (compare also NöZMG 1886, 738).
2. according to PhiSt. C. 73 SperlingNota Rel. im Hebr. 1876, 15-22 for אֲשֶׁל, developed from the relative שׁ (which see) 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 Phoenician), and
(2) the addition of the demonstrative root ל [found also in אֵל, אֵלָּה, הַלָּזֶה (which see), bdb008107 he who, bdb008108 who (plural)]: the main objection to this explanation is the change of ל to ר, which is hardly rendered probable by the compare of Syriac bdb008109 by side of Targum הָלְכָּא. 1 seems preferable, the primitive root having acquired different significations in the different Semitic languages, and having been weakened in Hebrew 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 pronominal affix, or other word, such as שָׁם, defining the nature of the relation more precisely: e.g. Genesis 1:11 אֲשֶׁר זַרֵעוֺבֿוֺ literally as to which, its seed is in it = in which is its seed, Psalm 1:4 like the chaff אֲשֶׁרתִּֿדְּפֶנּוּ רוּחַ as to which, the wind drives it = which the wind drives, etc.; & so שָׁם ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁר = where, מִשָּׁם ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁר = whence, Genesis 2:11; Genesis 3:23; Genesis 20:13 etc. Sometimes also (see below) the relation expressed by it is specifically temporal, local causal, etc. More particularly.
1. it includes its pronominal antecedent, whether in the nominative or oblique cases, as Numbers 22:6 וַאֲשֶׁר תָּאֹר יוּאָר and he whom thou cursest is cursed, Exodus 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... Genesis 43:16, to those who... Genesis 47:24, to that which Genesis 27:8; מֵאֲשֶׁר Judges 16:30; 2 Samuel 18:18 than those whom; Leviticus 27:24 לַאֲשֶׁר קָנָהוּ מֵאִתּוֺ to him from whom he bought it, Numbers 5:7; Isaiah 24:2 כַּאֲשֶׁר נשֶׁא בוֺ like him against whom there is a creditor.
2. instances of אֲשֶׁר followed by a pronominal affix, or by שָׁם, שָֽׁמָּה, מִשָּׁם, are so common that the examples cited above will be sufficient. Very rarely there occurs the anomalous construction עִם אֲשֶׁר Genesis 31:32 for אֲשֶׁר עִמּוֺ (see Genesis 44:9), בַּאֲשֶׁר Isaiah 47:12 for אֲשֶׁר בָּהֶם, לַאֲשֶׁר for לָהֶם ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁר Ezekiel 23:40: Psalm 119:49 see under על אשׁר. It is followed by the pronoun in the nominative, in the following cases: —
(a) immediately, mostly before an adjective or participle, Genesis 9:3 all moving things אֲשֶׁר הוּאחַֿי which are living, Leviticus 11:26; Numbers 9:13; Numbers 14:8, 27; Numbers 35:31; Deuteronomy 20:20; 1 Samuel 10:19 (see Dr) 2 Kings 25:19 (|| Jeremiah 52:25 היה) Jeremiah 27:9; Ezekiel 43:19; Haggai 1:9; Ruth 4:15; Nehemiah 2:18; Ecclesiastes 7:26; before a verb 2 Kings 22:13 (omitted 2 Chronicles 34:21).
(b) in a negative sentence, at the end: Genesis 7:2; Genesis 17:12; Numbers 17:5; Deuteronomy 17:15 אֲשֶׁר לֹא אָחִיךָ הוּא who is not thy brother, Deuteronomy 20:15; Judges 19:12; 1 Kings 8:41 || 1 Kings 9:20 ||. N.B. Psalm 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.
3. sometimes (though rarely) the defining adjunct is a pronoun of 1st or 2nd person as well as of 3rd person. In such cases it is strictly to be rendered I who..., thou who, etc.; Hosea 14:4 אֲשֶׁרבְּֿךָ יְרֻחַם יָתוֺם thou by whom the fatherless is compassionated! Jeremiah 31:32 I, whose covenant they brake, Jeremiah 32:19; Isaiah 49:23; Job 37:17f. thou whose garments are warm..., canst thou? etc., Psalm 71:19; Psalm 71:20; Psalm 144:12 we whose sons, etc., Psalm 139:15 my frame was not hidden from thee, אֲ֯שֶׁרעֻֿשֵּׂיתִי בַסֵּתֶר I who was wrought in secret (= though I was wrought in secret), Exodus 14:13 for ye who have seen the Egyptians today, — ye shall not see them again for ever! (compare Psalm 41:9).
4. the defining pron. adjunct is dispensed with
a. when אֲשֶׁר represents the simple subject of a sentence, or the direct object of a verb: so constantly, as Genesis 2:1 the work אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה which he made, Genesis 3:3 the tree אֲשֶׁר בְּתוֺךְ הַגָּן which is in the midst of the garden, etc.
b. after words denoting time, place, or manner, so that אֲשֶׁר then becomes equivalent to when, where, why:
(α) Genesis 6:4 אַחֲרֵי כֵן אֲשֶׁר afterwards, when, etc. (compare 2 Chronicles 35:20) Genesis 45:6 there are still 5 years אֲשֶׁר אֵין חָרִישׁ when there shall be no plowing, Joshua 14:10; 1 Kings 22:25; after יוֺם or הַיּוֺם Deuteronomy 4:10; Judges 4:14; 1 Samuel 24:5 (see Dr) 2 Samuel 19:25; Jeremiah 20:14 and elsewhere; similarly Genesis 40:13.
(β) Genesis 35:13 בַּמָּקוֺם אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר אִתּוֺ in the place where he spake with him, Genesis 35:14; Genesis 39:20; Numbers 13:27; Numbers 22:26; Deuteronomy 1:31 in the desert which thou sawest, where (accents Ke Di), Deuteronomy 8:15; 1 Kings 8:9 (unless לוּחוֺת הַבְּרִית has here fallen out: see Greek Version of the LXX & Deuteronomy 9:9) Isaiah 55:11; Isaiah 64:10; Psalm 84:4. So
(γ) in אֶל אֲשֶׁר to (the place) which (or whither) Exodus 32:34; Ruth 1:16; אֶלכָּֿלאֲֿשֶׁר to every (place) whither Joshua 1:16; Proverbs 17:8; בַּאֲשֶׁר in (the place) where Judges 5:27; Judges 17:8, 9; 1 Samuel 23:13; 2 Kings 8:1; Ruth 1:16, 17; Job 39:30, once only with שָׁם Genesis 21:17; בְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר wheresoever Joshua 1:7, 9; Judges 2:15; 1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 18:5; 2 Samuel 7:7; 2 Kings 18:7; מֵאֲשֶׁר from (the place) where = whencesoever Exodus 5:11; Ruth 2:9; עַלאֲֿשֶׁר to (the place) whither (or which) 2 Samuel 15:20; 1 Kings 18:12; עַלכָּֿלאֲֿשֶׁר Jeremiah 1:7.
(δ) ֗֗֗ אֲשֶׁר הַדָּבָר זֶה this is the reason that or why... Joshua 5:4; 1 Kings 11:27.
c. more extreme instances Leviticus 14:22, 30, 31; Numbers 6:21; Deuteronomy 7:19 (wherewith), Deuteronomy 28:20; 1 Samuel 2:32 (wherein), 1 Kings 2:26; Judges 8:15 (about whom), Isaiah 8:12 (where יאמר would be followed normally by לוֺ), Isaiah 31:6 turn ye to (him as to) whom they have deeply rebelled, Isaiah 47:15; Zephaniah 3:11; Ecclesiastes 3:9; 1 Kings 14:19 (= how).
d. it is dispensed with only in appearance after (וג׳ ׅאָמַרְתִּי) ׅאָמַר ׅאֲשֶׁר followed by the words used, its place being really taken by a pronoun in the speech which follows, as Genesis 3:17 the tree as to which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat from it, Exodus 22:8; Deuteronomy 28:68; Judges 7:4 (זֶה) Judges 8:15 (where the noun repeated takes the place of the pronoun, compare Deuteronomy 9:2) 1 Samuel 9:17 (זֶה):23 +; compare 2 Samuel 11:16; 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 21:4.
5. אֲשֶׁר sometimes in poetry = one who, a man who (men who), ὅστις, οἵτινες, Psalm 24:4; Psalm 55:20; Psalm 95:4; Psalm 95:5; Job 4:19; Job 5:5; Job 9:5 (Hi) Job 15:17.
6. אֲשֶׁר occasionally receives its closer definition by a substantive following it, in other words, its logical antecedent is inserted in the relative clause:
(a) in the phrase peculiar to Jeremiah, אֶל יר׳ אֲשֶׁר הָיָה דְבַר י׳ that which came (of) the word of י׳ to Jeremiah † Jeremiah 14:1; Jeremiah 46:1; Jeremiah 47:1; Jeremiah 49:34 (compare Ew§ 334);
(b) Exodus 25:9; Numbers 33:4; 1 Samuel 25:30; 2 Kings 8:12; 2 Kings 12:6 לְכֹל אֲשֶׁריִֿמָּצֵא שָׁם בָּֽדֶק׃ Ezekiel 12:25; compare the Ethiopic usage Di§ 201;
(c) (antecedant repeated) Genesis 49:30 = Genesis 50:13, 1 Samuel 25:30 (י׳ repeated), Isaiah 54:9 (probably) as to which I sware that, etc., Amos 5:1 which I take up over you (as) a dirge.
7. אֲשֶׁר ל׳ that (belongs, belong, belonged) to, is used
a. either alone or preceded by כָּלֿ to express (all) that (belongs) to, as Genesis 14:23 מִכָּלאֲֿשֶׁרלְֿךָ of all that is thine, Genesis 31:1 מֵאֲשֶׁר לְאָבִינוּ of that which was our father's, Genesis 32:24 & sent over אֶתאֲֿשֶׁרלֿוֺ that which he had, + often
b. as a circumlocution of the genitive, as Genesis 29:9 עִםהַֿצּאֹן אֲשֶׁר לְאָבִיהָ with the sheep that were her father's, Genesis 40:5; Genesis 47:4; Leviticus 9:8; Judges 6:11; 1 Samuel 25:7 הָרֹעִים אֲשֶׁרלְֿךָ, 2 Samuel 14:31 אֶתהַֿחֶלְקָה אֲשֶׁרלִֿי, 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Kings 1:8, 33 אֲשֶׁר־לִי הַפִּרְדָּה עַל upon mine own mule, 1 Kings 1:49; 1 Kings 4:2; 2 Kings 11:10; 2 Kings 16:13; Ruth 2:21; and especially in the case of a compound expression depending on a single genitive, as Genesis 23:9; Genesis 40:5; Genesis 41:43 מִרְכֶּבֶת הַמִּשְׁנֶה אֲשֶׁרלֿוֺ the chariot of the second rank which he had, Exodus 38:30; Judges 3:20; Judges 6:25; 1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 21:8 אֲבִיר הָרֹעִים אֲשֶׁר לְשָׁאוּל the mightiest of Saul's herdmen, 1 Samuel 24:5 אֶתכְּֿנַףהַֿמְּעִיל אֲשֶׁרלְֿשָׁאוּל, 2 Samuel 2:8 Saul's captain of the host, 1 Kings 10:28; 1 Kings 15:20; 1 Kings 22:31; Jeremiah 52:17; Ruth 4:3.
c. with names of places (especially such as do not readily admit the stative construct) Judges 18:28; Judges 19:14 הַגִּבְעָה אֲשֶׁר לְבִנְיָמִין Gibeah (the hill) of Benjamin, Judges 20:4; 1 Samuel 17:1; 1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:15; 1 Kings 17:9; 1 Kings 19:3; 2 Kings 14:11. compare שֶׁל (which see) which in Rabb, like the Aramaic -דִּיל, bdb008301, is in habitual use as a mark of the genitive. — N.B. In Aramaic also דּי, bdb008302, without ל, expresses the genitive relation, as מִלְּתָא דִימַֿלְכָּא, literally 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 Samuel 13:8 read אֲשֶׁר אָמַר (or שָׂם Exodus 19:5) שְׁמוּאֵל (Greek Version of the LXX εἶπε); 1 Kings 11:25 supply עָשָׂה (Greek Version of the LXX ἣν ἐποίησεν); 2 Kings 25:10 supply אֵת with (as || Jeremiah 52:14); 2 Chronicles 34:22 read וַאֲשֶׁר אָמַר הַמֶּלֶךְ (compare Greek Version of the LXX) and those whom the king appointed (abbreviated from 2 Kings 22:14); compare Ew§ 292 a, b with note.
8. אֲשֶׁר becomes, like Aramaic דּי, bdb008303, a conjunction approximating in usage to כִּי : thus
a. = quod, ὅτι, that, subordinating an entire sentence to a verb of knowing, remembering, etc.
(α) with אֵת Deuteronomy 9:7 forget not אֵת אֲשֶׁר הִקְצַפְתָּ the fact that (= how) thou provokedst, etc., Deuteronomy 29:15; Joshua 2:10; 1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 24:19; 2 Samuel 11:20 know ye not אֵת אֲשֶׁריֹֿרוּ how they shoot from off the wall? 2 Kings 8:12; Isaiah 38:31 Kings 14:19; 2 Kings 14:15; 2 Kings 20:20. Of time (peculiarly) 2 Samuel 14:15 עַתָּה אֲשֶׁר now (is it) that... Zechariah 8:20 (probably) yet (shall it be) that... Zechariah 8:23; compare כִּמְעַט שֶׁ Songs 3:4.
(β) without אֵת (not very common, כִּי being usually employed): after יָדַע Exodus 11:7; Ezekiel 20:26 (very strange in Ezekiel: see Hi) Job 9:5 (Ew De Di) Ecclesiastes 8:12, רָאָה Deuteronomy 1:31 (RV) 1 Samuel 18:15, הִתְוַדָּה to confess Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 26:40b, הִשְׁבִּיעַ 1 Kings 22:16 (caused to swear that...); after a noun Isaiah 38:7 הָאוֺת אֲשֶׁר the sign that... (|| 2 Kings 20:9 כִּי): with growing frequency in late Hebrew, 2 Chron 2:7, and especially Nehemiah, Esther: Nehemiah 2:5, 10; Nehemiah 7:65 (= Ezra 2:63) Nehemiah 8:14, 15; Nehemiah 10:31; Nehemiah 13:1, 19, 22; Esther 1:19; Esther 2:10; Esther 3:4; Esther 4:11; Esther 6:2; Esther 8:11; Ecclesiastes 3:22 (מֵאֲשֶׁר) Ecclesiastes 5:4; Ecclesiastes 7:18 (with טוֺב : contrast Ruth 2:22) Ruth 2:22; Ruth 2:29; Ruth 8:12; Ruth 8:14; Ruth 9:1; Daniel 1:8 (twice in verse).
(γ) prefixed to a direct citation, like כִּי which see (= ὅτι recitativum) (rare) 1 Samuel 15:20; 2 Samuel 1:4; 2 Samuel 2:4 (see Dr) Psalm 10:6 (probably), Nehemiah 4:6.
b. it is resolvable into so that: Genesis 11:7 אֲשֶׁר לֹא יִשְׁמְעוּ so that they understand not, etc., Genesis 13:16; Genesis 22:14 אֲשֶׁר יֵאָמֵר so that it is said, Exodus 20:26; Deuteronomy 4:10, 40 אֲשֶׁר יִיטַב לְךָ Deuteronomy 6:3; Deuteronomy 28:27, 51; 1 Kings 3:12, 13; 2 Kings 9:37; Malachi 3:19 [Malachi 4:1].
c. it has a causal force, forasmuch as, in that, since: Genesis 30:18; Genesis 31:49 and Mizpah, אֲשֶׁר אָמַר for that he said, Genesis 34:13, 27; Genesis 42:21 we are guilty, אֲשֶׁר רָאִינוּ we who saw (or, in that we saw), Numbers 20:13 Meribah, because they strove there, Deuteronomy 3:24; Joshua 4:7, 23; Joshua 22:31; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 2:23; 1 Samuel 15:15; 1 Samuel 20:42 go in peace, אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְנוּ forasmuch as we have sworn, 1 Samuel 25:26 thou whom (= or, seeing that) י׳ hath withholden, 2 Samuel 2:5 blessed are ye of י׳, אֲשֶׁר עֲשִׂיתֶם, who (οἵτινες) have done (or in that ye have done), 1 Kings 3:19; 1 Kings 15:5; 2 Kings 12:3; 2 Kings 17:4; 2 Kings 23:26; Jeremiah 16:13; Ecclesiastes 8:11, 12 (Hi De Now). Here also belongs its use in אֲשֶׁר לָמָּה since why... ? (= lest) Daniel 1:10: see below לָמָּה. On אֲשֶׁר עַל כֵּן forasmuch as Job 34:27 see below כִּי עַל כֵּן.
d. it expresses a condition (rare & peculiar): Leviticus 4:22 אֲשֶׁר נָשִׂיא יֶחֱטָא in (case) that = when (or if) a ruler sinneth (Leviticus 4:3; Leviticus 4:13; Leviticus 4:37 אִם), Numbers 5:29 (explained differently by Ew§ 334 a), Deuteronomy 11:27 and the blessing אֲשֶׁר תִּשְׁמְעוּ if ye hearken (Deuteronomy 11:28 אִם), Deuteronomy 18:22 Ges, Joshua 4:21 אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁאָלוּן ֗֗֗ when they ask..., then... (Joshua 4:6 כִּי), Isaiah 31:4. In 1 Kings 8:33 (|| 2 Chronicles 6:24 כִּי, compare Kings 2 Chronicles 6:35; 2 Chronicles 6:37) אֲשֶׁר may be rendered indifferently because or when. Once, similarly, אֵת אֲשֶׁר 1 Kings 8:31 (|| אִם).
e. perhaps (exceptionally) = כַּאֲשֶׁר, as, Jeremiah 33:22; Isaiah 54:9 (followed by כֵּן; but כֵּן which see, sometimes stands without כאשׁר, & אשׁר may in these passages connect with what precedes); according to some also Jeremiah 48:8; Psalm 106:34 (in a connection where כַּאֲשֶׁר would be more usual: אֲשֶׁר may however be the object of אָמַר). In 1 Samuel 16:7 אֲשֶׁר יִרְאֶה הָאָדָם read כַּאֲשֶׁר, see Dr.
f. combined with prepositions, 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 interrogative, occurs once, 2 Kings 6:22. In Deuteronomy 15:14 also read כַּאֲשֶׁר : note ברכך before.
Note 1. אֲשֶׁר being a connecting link, without any perfectly corresponding equivalent in English, its force is not unfrequently capable of being represented in more than one way. See e.g. 2 Samuel 2:5 (above 8 c), Isaiah 28:12 unto whom he said, or for that he said to them.
Note 2.
The opinion that אֲשֶׁר has an asseverative force (like כִּי, which see), or introduces the apodosis, is not probable, being both alien to its general usage & not required by the passages alleged. Render Isaiah 8:20 either 'Surely according to this word will those speak who have no dawn,' or '... will they speak when (compare above 8 d Deuteronomy 11:27; Joshua 4:21) they have no dawn.'

בַּאֲשֶׁר 19
a. in (that) which... Isaiah 56:4; Isaiah 65:12; Isaiah 66:4 (above 1); Ecclesiastes 3:9 in (that, in) which (4c); Isaiah 47:12 (see 2).
b. adverb in (the place) where: above 4b (γ).
c. conjunction in that, inasmuch as, † Genesis 39:9, 23; Ecclesiastes 7:2; Ecclesiastes 8:4; compare bdb008401.
d.Jonah 1:8 בַּאֲשֶׁר לְמִי on account of whom ? (בַּאֲשֶׁר לְ on account of, framed on model of Aramaic בְּדִיל : see below שֶׁל).

מֵאֲשֶׁר 17
a. from (or than) that which (him, them, etc., that...) Genesis 3:11; Exodus 29:27 (twice in verse); Numbers 6:11 (see Leviticus 4:26; Joshua 10:11; Judges 16:30; Isaiah 47:13 +; than that... Ecclesiastes 3:22; לְבַד מֵאֲשֶׁר Esther 4:11.
b. adverb from (the place) where: above 4a (β).
c. conjunction from (the fact) that..., sinceIsaiah 43:4.

כַּאֲשֶׁר conjunction according as, as, when (compare for the combined Aramaic כְּדִי, כַּד) —
1. according to that which, according as, as:
a. Genesis 34:12 I will give כאשׁר תאמרו אלי according as ye shall (or may) say unto me, Genesis 44:1; Exodus 8:23; Numbers 22:8; 1 Samuel 2:16; Genesis 34:22 if we are circumcised כאשׁר הם נמולים; Genesis 41:21 כאשׁר בתחלה as at the beginning, so כ׳ בראשׁונה Joshua 8:5, 6; 2 Samuel 7:10; Exodus 5:13 ׃כאשׁר בהיות התבן Genesis 7:9 they came in two by two כאשׁר צוה אלהִים, as God commanded Noah; so, or similarly, very often, especially in P, Genesis 7:16; Genesis 8:21; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 17:23; Genesis 21:1 (twice in verse); Exodus 16:24; Exodus 39:1, 5, 7; Numbers 3:16, 42 etc.; כאשׁר דבר י׳ Deuteronomy 1:21; Deuteronomy 2:1; Deuteronomy 6:3, 19 — Deuteronomy.
b. answered, for increased emphasis, by כֵּן (compare כְּ 2d), Genesis 50:12 ויעשׂו כן כאשׁר צִוָּם, Exodus 7:10, 20; Genesis 18:5 (J) כן חעשׂח כאשׁר דברת, Exodus 10:10 (iron.), Amos 5:14 (do.); in opposed to order, Judges 1:7 כאשׁר עשׂיתי, כן שׁלם לי, Exodus 7:6 כן עשׂו כאשׁר צוה י׳, compare Exodus 12:28, 50; Exodus 39:43; Numbers 5:4; Numbers 17:26; Numbers 36:10 (all P); with imperfect (frequently) Numbers 2:17 (P) כאשׁר יחנו כן יסעו; of degree = the more... the more, Exodus 1:12 וכאשׁר יענּו אתו כן ירבה וכן יפרץ, compare Exodus 17:11 (JE) ישׁר׳ וגבר ֗֗֗ ירים כאשׁר והיה according as he held up, etc., Israel prevailed; in an oath or solemn promise, Numbers 14:28 אם לא כאשׁר דברתם כן אעשׂה, Deuteronomy 28:63 (Jeremiah 31:28), 1 Kings 1:30; Isaiah 10:11; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 52:14f. (see כֵּן 2b).
c. answered by וַ (Dr§ 127 γ) † Exodus 16:34; Numbers 1:19.
d. often in similes (followed by imperfect of habit) Exodus 33:11 כאשׁר ידבר אישׁ אל רעהו, Numbers 11:12; Deuteronomy 1:44; Isaiah 9:2; Isaiah 66:20 +, answered by כֵּן Isaiah 31:4; Isaiah 55:10; Isaiah 66:22; Amos 3:12 +; a second verb is, in such cases, in the perfect with וְ consecutive (Dr§ 115) Deuteronomy 22:26; Isaiah 29:8 והקיץ ֗֗֗ יחלם כאשׁר, Isaiah 65:8; Amos 5:19.
e. הָיָה כַּאֲשֶׁר (compare הָיָה כְּ) to be as if, Job 10:19 כאשׁר לא הייתי אהיה, Zechariah 10:6 והיו כאשׁר לא זנחתים.
2. with a casual force, in so far as, since (German demgemäss dass), Genesis 26:29 if thou doest us no harm כאשׁר לא נגענוך according as, in so far as, we have not touched thee; Numbers 27:14 כאשׁר מריתם פי inasmuch as ye have defied my mouth, Judges 6:27; 1 Samuel 28:18 (answered by על כן), 2 Kings 17:26; Micah 3:4.
3. with a temporal force, when, Genesis 18:33 and Y. went away כאשׁר כלה when he had finished, etc., Genesis 32:3; Genesis 32:2; Genesis 32:32; [Genesis 32:31; 1 Samuel 8:6; 2 Samuel 12:21 +; answered by וַּ (Dr§ 127 β), 1 Samuel 6:6; 1 Samuel 12:8; ֗֗֗ כאשׁר ויהי and it came to pass, when... Genesis 12:11; Genesis 20:13; Genesis 24:22, 52; Exodus 32:19 + often; Genesis 43:14 כאשׁר שׁכלתי שׁכלתי when I am bereaved, I am bereaved ! an expression of resignation, so Esther 4:16 כאשׁר אבדתי אבדתי. Joshua 2:7 אחרי כאשׁר is a 'conflate' reading, omit either אחרי or כ. Of future time, Genesis 27:40; Genesis 40:14 כאשׁר ייטב לך, Hosea 7:12; Ecclesiastes 4:17; Ecclesiastes 5:3, and without a verb Isaiah 23:5 כאשׁר שׁמע למצרים. — Micah 3:3 כאשׁר is simply as that which, Job 29:25 as one who.

ּ שֶׁ, also († Genesis 6:3 [? see 4 a], Judges 5:7 (twice in verse); Songs 1:7; Job 19:29 [?]) ּ שֶׁ, שָׁ in שָׁאַתָּהJudges 6:17, and שְׁ in שְׁהוּאEcclesiastes 2:22, שְׁהֵםEcclesiastes 3:18 (elsewhere before guttural שֶׁ, as שֶׁאֲנִיSongs 1:6; Ecclesiastes 2:18, שֶׁאֵיןPsalm 146:3, שֶׁהֵםSongs 6:5; Lamentations 4:9, שֶׁעַלJudges 7:12; Judges 8:26, שֶׁרּאֹשִׁיSongs 5:2), relative particle who, which, that, etc. (constantly in Late Hebrew; Aramaic of Nerab, Ldzb371, 445; Assyrian sha; Phoenician אש (regularly), also sometimes ש (Ldzb227f.): according to Ges Ew§ 181 b Olp. 439 Sta§ 176 e, abbreviated from אֲשֶׁר; more probably (Sperling [see אֲשֶׁר], Köii. 323 f.) an original demonstrative particle), synonym with אֲשֶׁר, but in usage limited to late Hebrew, and passages with north Palestinian colouring, namely †Judges 5:7 (twice in verse) [אֲשֶׁר Judges 5:27], Judges 6:17; Judges 7:12; Judges 8:26; 2 Kings 6:11 (see 4c), Jonah 1:7, 12; Jonah 4:10 [אֲשֶׁר + 11 times], Psalm 122:3; Psalm 122:4; Psalm 123:2; Psalm 124:1; Psalm 124:2; Psalm 124:6; Psalm 129:6; Psalm 129:7; Psalm 133:2; Psalm 133:3; Psalm 135:2; Psalm 135:8; Psalm 135:10; Psalm 136:23; Psalm 137:8; Psalm 137:9; Psalm 144:15; Psalm 146:3; Psalm 146:5; Lamentations 2:15, 16; Lamentations 4:9; Lamentations 5:18; Ezra 8:20; 1 Chronicles 5:20; 1 Chronicles 27:27; Canticles [Songs] (uniformly, except in title Songs 1:1); Ecclesiastes (68 times; אֲשֶׁא + 89 times); also (dubious) Genesis 6:3; Genesis 49:10 (שֶׁלֹּה Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Targum), Job 19:29; and in the proper name (which see.) מִישָׁאֵל and מְתוּשָׁאֵל. — In usage, ּ שֶׁ is in the main parallel with אֲשֶׁר, namely...
1. as pronoun who, which, whom, Judges 7:12 כַּהוֺל שֶׁעַל שְׂפַת הַיָּם (compare חוֺל c), Psalm 122:3; Psalm 124:6 etc.; him whom, that which, etc., Songs 1:7; Songs 3:1; 1 Chronicles 27:27; Ecclesiastes 1:11; Ecclesiastes 6:3 וְרַב שֶׁיִּהְיוּ יְמֵי חַיָּיו and much (verb) is that which his days amount to (Hi De and others), Ecclesiastes 6:10; ּ שֶׁ הוּא that which Ecclesiastes 1:9 (twice in verse); in the genitive, ּ שֶׁ אַשְׁרֵיPsalm 137:8; Psalm 137:9; Psalm 146:5. — On ּמַה־שֶּׁin Ecclesiastes = whatever, what, see מָה 1e b.
2. as a connecting link; = where (compare אֲשֶׁר p. 81, and 4b β), ּ שֶׁ מְקוֺםEcclesiastes 1:7; Ecclesiastes 11:3 (compare מְקוֺם אֲשֶׁר Genesis 39:20 +: Ges§ 130c), whither Psalm 122:4 (שֶׁשָּׁם ֗֗֗), when Songs 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:3 ּ שֶׁ בַּיּוֹם (compare ib. 4b a).
3. as a conjunction (compare אֲשֶׁר 8); —
a. that, after רָאָה Ecclesiastes 2:13; Ecclesiastes 3:18, יָרַע Ecclesiastes 1:17; Ecclesiastes 2:14; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Job 19:19 (?), דִּבֶּר Ecclesiastes 2:15, אָמַר Ecclesiastes 8:14, עָשָׂה אוֺת Judges 6:17; as subject of sentence, Ecclesiastes 3:13; Ecclesiastes 5:15; also in the phrases,
(a) what is...that ? Songs 5:9 (usually כִּי; see מָךְ 1d b), מֶה הָיָה שֶּׁ  how comes it that... ? Ecclesiastes 7:10;
(b) Songs 3:4 כִּמְעַט שֶׁעָבַרְתּת מֵהֶם hardly (was it) that (German kaum dass) I had passed, etc., Ecclesiastes 7:14 עַל דִּדבְרַת שֶׁלּאֹ יִמְצָא to the intent that..., Ecclesiastes 5:15 כָּלעֻֿמַּת שֶׁבֶּא exactly as..., Ecclesiastes 12:9 תֵר שֶׁ besides that, ּ שֶׁ עַד (ּ שַׁ עַדJudges 5:7) until that Psalm 123:2; Songs 2:7, 17 + (see III. עַד II 1 a a and b; compare Late Hebrew Yoma 5:1), while Songs 1:12 (ib. 2d); ּ שֶׁ עָשָׂה to make or cause that..., †Ecclesiastes 3:14 (compare Ezekiel 36:27).
b. involving a reason (compare אֲשֶׁר 8c), because, since, Songs 1:6 (twice in verse); Songs 5:2; Ecclesiastes 2:18b. Hence שֵׁלָּמָה Songs 1:7 since why ? = lest (see מָה 4d b).
4. compounds:
a. ּ בְּשֶׁ, the same as בַּאֲשֶׁר c in that, seeing that, Ecclesiastes 2:16; also (according to MT Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Hu De) Genesis 6:3 בְּשַׁגַּם הוּא בָשָׂר because that he also is flesh; but see שָׁגַג.
b. ּ כְּשֶׁ, the same as כַּאֲשֶׁר
(b) when (so often in Late Hebrew, as Ab Ecclesiastes 1:8 (3 times in verse); Ecclesiastes 1:14) Ecclesiastes 9:12; Ecclesiastes 10:3.
c. ּ מִשֶּׁ, the same as מֵאֲשֶׁר a, 2 Kings 6:12 מִי מִשֶּׁלָּנוּ who of those that are ours ? (but Klo KmpKau Benz מְגַלֵּנוּ who betrays us ? compare Greek Version of the LXX); Ecclesiastes 5:4 than that (compare מֵאֲשֶׁר Ecclesiastes 3:22), + Ecclesiastes 2:24 (read מִשֶׁיֹּאכַל with Ew De, etc.; compare Ecclesiastes 3:22).
d. שֶׁל, like לְ אֲשֶׁר (אֲשֶׁר 7b), a mark of the genitive: thrice, adding slight emphasis to the suffix, Songs 1:6 = Songs 8:12 כַּרְמִי שֶׁלִּי my vineyard (literally my vineyard, which is mine), Songs 3:7 מִטָּתוֺ שֶׁלִּשְׁלֹמֹה (so often in Late Hebrew, but without any special emphasis, as Aboth 1:12 הֲוֵי מתלמידיווּ שׁלאֿהרן be of Aaron's disciples, 2:1 שְׂכָרָן שֶׁלמִֿצְוֺת, Songs 2:2; 3:2 הֲוֵי מתפלל בשׁלומהּ שׁלמֿלכות; compare bdb098001in Syriac, as Luke 6:42 bdb098002bdb098003my words, Nö§ 225). And with בְּ, בְּשֶׁל literally through that which belongs to or concerns, pleonastic for on account of (a late, unidiomatic translation of Aramaic בְּרִיל, from בְּ, דִּי, and לְ, as in Onk Genesis 12:13 בדילי on my account, Genesis 30:27; Genesis 39:5 בְּדִיל יוֺסֵף, בְּדִיל מָא on account of what ? Judges 8:1; 2 Samuel 9:1; 1 Kings 11:12, 39, etc.), Jonah 1:7 בְּשֶׁלְּמִי on account of whom ? (|| Jonah 1:8 בַּאֲשֶׁר לְמִי; probably a gloss), Jonah 1:12 בְּשֶׁלִּי an account of me (Targum בְּדִיל מַן, בְּדִילִי); Ecclesiastes 8:17 בְּשֶׁל אֲשֶׁר יַעֲמֹל הָאָדָם לְבַקֵּשׁ on account of (the fact) that (= seeing that) man labours, etc. (unidiomatic translation of Aramaic בְּדִיל דְּ because that, as Genesis 6:3 בְּדִיל דְּאִינוּן בִּסְרָא, Genesis 39:9 בְּרִיל דְּאַתְּ אִיתְּתֵיהּ [for Hebrew בַּאֲשֶׁר אַתְּ אִשְׁתּוֺ]; Palmyrene בדיל די Ldzb233, — in Tariff 1:4 (CookeN. Semitic Inscr. 320) = ἐπειδή).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H1768.
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Genesis

1:11; 2:1; 2:11; 3:3; 3:11; 3:17; 3:23; 6:3; 6:3; 6:3; 6:3; 6:4; 7:2; 7:9; 7:16; 8:21; 9:3; 11:7; 12:4; 12:11; 12:13; 13:16; 14:23; 17:12; 17:23; 18:5; 18:33; 20:13; 20:13; 21:1; 21:17; 22:14; 23:9; 24:22; 24:52; 26:29; 27:8; 27:40; 29:9; 30:18; 30:27; 31:1; 31:32; 31:49; 32:2; 32:24; 32:31; 34:12; 34:13; 34:22; 34:27; 35:13; 35:14; 39:5; 39:9; 39:9; 39:20; 39:20; 39:23; 40:5; 40:5; 40:13; 40:14; 41:21; 41:43; 42:21; 43:14; 43:16; 44:1; 44:9; 45:6; 47:4; 47:24; 49:10; 49:30; 50:12; 50:13

Exodus

1:12; 4:12; 5:11; 5:13; 7:6; 7:10; 7:20; 8:23; 10:10; 11:7; 12:28; 12:50; 14:13; 16:24; 16:34; 17:11; 19:5; 20:26; 22:8; 25:9; 29:27; 32:19; 32:34; 33:11; 38:30; 39:1; 39:5; 39:7; 39:43

Leviticus

4:3; 4:13; 4:22; 4:26; 5:5; 9:8; 11:26; 14:22; 14:30; 14:31; 26:40; 27:24

Numbers

1:19; 2:17; 3:16; 3:42; 5:4; 5:7; 5:29; 6:11; 6:21; 9:13; 11:12; 13:27; 14:8; 14:27; 14:28; 17:5; 20:13; 22:6; 22:8; 22:26; 27:14; 33:4; 35:31; 36:10

Deuteronomy

1:21; 1:31; 1:31; 1:44; 2:1; 3:24; 4:10; 4:10; 4:40; 6:3; 6:3; 6:19; 7:19; 8:15; 9:2; 9:7; 9:9; 11:27; 11:27; 11:28; 15:14; 17:15; 18:22; 20:15; 20:20; 22:26; 28:20; 28:27; 28:51; 28:63; 28:68; 29:15

Joshua

1:7; 1:9; 1:16; 2:7; 2:10; 4:6; 4:7; 4:21; 4:21; 4:23; 5:4; 8:5; 8:6; 10:11; 14:10; 22:31

Judges

1:7; 2:15; 3:20; 4:14; 5:7; 5:7; 5:7; 5:27; 5:27; 6:11; 6:17; 6:17; 6:17; 6:25; 6:27; 7:4; 7:12; 7:12; 7:12; 8:1; 8:15; 8:15; 8:26; 8:26; 9:17; 16:30; 16:30; 17:8; 17:9; 18:28; 19:12; 19:14; 20:4

Ruth

1:16; 1:16; 1:17; 2:9; 2:21; 2:22; 2:22; 4:3; 4:15

1 Samuel

2:16; 2:23; 2:32; 6:6; 8:6; 9:17; 10:19; 12:8; 13:8; 14:47; 15:15; 15:20; 16:7; 17:1; 17:40; 18:5; 18:15; 20:42; 21:8; 23:13; 24:5; 24:5; 24:11; 24:19; 25:7; 25:26; 25:30; 25:30; 28:18

2 Samuel

1:4; 2:4; 2:5; 2:5; 2:8; 7:7; 7:10; 9:1; 11:16; 11:20; 12:21; 14:15; 14:31; 15:20; 18:18; 19:25; 23:8

1 Kings

1:8; 1:30; 1:33; 1:49; 2:26; 3:12; 3:13; 3:19; 4:2; 8:9; 8:31; 8:33; 8:41; 9:20; 10:28; 11:12; 11:25; 11:27; 11:39; 14:19; 14:19; 15:5; 15:20; 15:27; 16:15; 17:9; 18:12; 19:3; 22:16; 22:25; 22:31

2 Kings

6:11; 6:12; 6:22; 8:1; 8:12; 8:12; 9:37; 11:10; 12:3; 12:6; 14:11; 14:15; 16:13; 17:4; 17:12; 17:26; 18:7; 20:9; 20:20; 21:4; 22:13; 22:14; 23:26; 25:10; 25:19

1 Chronicles

5:20; 27:27; 27:27

2 Chronicles

2:7; 6:24; 6:35; 6:37; 34:21; 34:22; 35:20

Ezra

2:63; 8:20

Nehemiah

2:5; 2:10; 2:18; 4:6; 7:65; 8:14; 8:15; 10:31; 13:1; 13:19; 13:22

Esther

1:19; 2:10; 3:4; 4:11; 4:11; 4:16; 6:2; 8:11

Job

4:19; 5:5; 9:5; 9:5; 10:19; 15:17; 19:19; 19:29; 19:29; 29:25; 34:27; 37:17; 39:30

Psalms

1:4; 10:6; 16:3; 24:4; 41:9; 55:20; 71:19; 71:20; 84:4; 95:4; 95:5; 106:34; 119:49; 122:3; 122:3; 122:4; 122:4; 123:2; 123:2; 124:1; 124:2; 124:6; 124:6; 129:6; 129:7; 133:2; 133:3; 135:2; 135:8; 135:10; 136:23; 137:8; 137:8; 137:9; 137:9; 139:15; 144:12; 144:15; 146:3; 146:3; 146:5; 146:5

Proverbs

17:8

Ecclesiastes

1:7; 1:8; 1:9; 1:11; 1:14; 1:17; 2:13; 2:14; 2:15; 2:16; 2:18; 2:18; 2:22; 2:24; 3:9; 3:9; 3:13; 3:14; 3:18; 3:18; 3:22; 3:22; 3:22; 3:22; 5:3; 5:4; 5:4; 5:14; 5:15; 5:15; 6:3; 6:10; 7:2; 7:10; 7:14; 7:18; 7:26; 8:4; 8:11; 8:12; 8:12; 8:14; 8:17; 9:5; 9:12; 10:3; 11:3; 12:3; 12:7; 12:9

Song of Songs

1:1; 1:6; 1:6; 1:6; 1:7; 1:7; 1:7; 1:12; 2:7; 2:17; 3:1; 3:4; 3:4; 3:7; 5:2; 5:2; 5:9; 6:5; 8:8; 8:12

Isaiah

8:12; 8:20; 9:2; 10:11; 14:24; 23:5; 24:2; 28:12; 29:8; 31:4; 31:4; 31:6; 38:3; 38:7; 43:4; 47:12; 47:12; 47:13; 47:15; 49:23; 52:14; 54:9; 54:9; 55:10; 55:11; 56:4; 64:10; 65:8; 65:12; 66:4; 66:20; 66:22

Jeremiah

1:7; 14:1; 16:13; 20:14; 27:9; 31:28; 31:32; 32:19; 33:22; 46:1; 47:1; 48:8; 49:34; 52:14; 52:17; 52:25

Lamentations

2:15; 2:16; 4:9; 4:9; 5:18

Ezekiel

12:25; 20:26; 23:40; 36:27; 43:19

Daniel

1:8; 1:10

Hosea

7:12; 14:4

Amos

3:12; 5:1; 5:14; 5:19

Jonah

1:7; 1:7; 1:8; 1:8; 1:12; 1:12; 4:10

Micah

3:3; 3:4

Zephaniah

3:11

Haggai

1:9

Zechariah

8:20; 8:23; 10:6

Malachi

4:1

Luke

6:42

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H834 matches the Hebrew אֲשֶׁר ('ăšer),
which occurs 89 times in 65 verses in 'Ecc' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Ecc 1:10–Ecc 8:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:10 - Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:13 - I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:16 - I said to myself, “Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:3 - After much thought, I decided to cheer myself with wine. And while still seeking wisdom, I clutched at foolishness. In this way, I tried to experience the only happiness most people find during their brief life in this world.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:10 - Anything I wanted, I would take. I denied myself no pleasure. I even found great pleasure in hard work, a reward for all my labors.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:12 - So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?[fn]).
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:9 - What do people really get for all their hard work?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:10 - I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:14 - And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:15 - What is happening now has happened before, and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:22 - So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why we are here! No one will bring us back from death to enjoy life after we die.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:1 - Again, I observed all the oppression that takes place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, with no one to comfort them. The oppressors have great power, and their victims are helpless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:2 - So I concluded that the dead are better off than the living.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:3 - But most fortunate of all are those who are not yet born. For they have not seen all the evil that is done under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:9 - Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:13 - It is better to be a poor but wise youth than an old and foolish king who refuses all advice.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:15 - But then everyone rushes to the side of yet another youth[fn] who replaces him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:16 - Endless crowds stand around him,[fn] but then another generation grows up and rejects him, too. So it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:1 - [fn]As you enter the house of God, keep your ears open and your mouth shut. It is evil to make mindless offerings to God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:4 - When you make a promise to God, don’t delay in following through, for God takes no pleasure in fools. Keep all the promises you make to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:5 - It is better to say nothing than to make a promise and not keep it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:15 - We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:18 - Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat, drink, and enjoy their work under the sun during the short life God has given them, and to accept their lot in life.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:19 - And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:1 - There is another serious tragedy I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives some people great wealth and honor and everything they could ever want, but then he doesn’t give them the chance to enjoy these things. They die, and someone else, even a stranger, ends up enjoying their wealth! This is meaningless—a sickening tragedy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:10 - Everything has already been decided. It was known long ago what each person would be. So there’s no use arguing with God about your destiny.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:12 - In the few days of our meaningless lives, who knows how our days can best be spent? Our lives are like a shadow. Who can tell what will happen on this earth after we are gone?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:2 - Better to spend your time at funerals than at parties.
After all, everyone dies—
so the living should take this to heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:13 - Accept the way God does things,
for who can straighten what he has made crooked?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:18 - Pay attention to these instructions, for anyone who fears God will avoid both extremes.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:19 - One wise person is stronger than ten leading citizens of a town!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:20 - Not a single person on earth is always good and never sins.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:21 - Don’t eavesdrop on others—you may hear your servant curse you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:22 - For you know how often you yourself have cursed others.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:26 - I discovered that a seductive woman[fn] is a trap more bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:28 - Though I have searched repeatedly, I have not found what I was looking for. Only one out of a thousand men is virtuous, but not one woman!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:29 - But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:3 - Don’t try to avoid doing your duty, and don’t stand with those who plot evil, for the king can do whatever he wants.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:4 - His command is backed by great power. No one can resist or question it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:7 - Indeed, how can people avoid what they don’t know is going to happen?
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:10 - I have seen wicked people buried with honor. Yet they were the very ones who frequented the Temple and are now praised[fn] in the same city where they committed their crimes! This, too, is meaningless.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:11 - When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:12 - But even though a person sins a hundred times and still lives a long time, I know that those who fear God will be better off.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:13 - The wicked will not prosper, for they do not fear God. Their days will never grow long like the evening shadows.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:14 - And this is not all that is meaningless in our world. In this life, good people are often treated as though they were wicked, and wicked people are often treated as though they were good. This is so meaningless!
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:15 - So I recommend having fun, because there is nothing better for people in this world than to eat, drink, and enjoy life. That way they will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives them under the sun.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:16 - In my search for wisdom and in my observation of people’s burdens here on earth, I discovered that there is ceaseless activity, day and night.

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