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Deuteronomy 11:6
“And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H834 · Hebrew
- Definition
- who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- Derivation
- a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number);
- KJV renderings
- [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.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- אֲשֶׁ֨ר — particle (relative)
- Usage
- Occurs 5,503 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 1:7Genesis 1:7Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:12Genesis 1:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אֲשֶׁר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.