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Nehemiah 10:31
“And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.” (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
- אֲשֶׁ֛ר — 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.