a.sher H834

אֲשֶׁר (a.sher) means “which” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

אֲשֶׁר Hebrew · H834 5,500 tagged occurrences in 4,438 verses

Pronunciation guide: ash-er' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H0834A

אֲשֶׁר · a.sher · which

A: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if B: Beth+ 1) in (that) which 2) (adv) 2a) where 3) (conj) 3a) in that, inasmuch as 3b) on account of C: Mem+ 1) from (or than) that which 2) from (the place) where 3) from (the fact) that, since D: Kaph+ 1) (conj.), according as, as, when 1a) according to that which, according as, as 1b) with a causal force: in so far as, since 1c) with a temporal force: when

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TBESH · H0834B

בַאֲשֶׁר · ba.a.sher · in which

1) in (that) which 2) (adv) 2a) where 3) (conj) 3a) in that, inasmuch as 3b) on account of

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TBESH · H0834C

מֵאֲשֶׁר · me.a.sher · whence

1) from (or than) that which 2) from (the place) where 3) from (the fact) that, since

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TBESH · H0834D

כַּאֲשֶׁר · ka.a.sher · as which

conj 1) according as, as, when 1a) according to that which, according as, as 1b) with a causal force: in so far as, since 1c) with a temporal force: when

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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.

KJV glosses: [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.

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How translators render H834

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
that	854
who	435
as	247
which	154
what	133
just as	130
where	130
whom	100
when	65
because	44
to which	40
whose	39
for	29
whatever	25
how	21
vvv	20
his accomplishments	18
those	18
and	17
is what	17
the one	17
with which	17
in which	16
that is	16
who were	16
by which	15
of which	15
on which	13
like	12
so that	12
since	10
to whom	10
he	9
in whose	9
from which	8
after	7
along with his accomplishments	7
so	7
to those	7
and how	6
and those	6
and what	6
and who	6
as soon as	6
for which	6
that was	6
them	6
those who	6
with	6
about which	5
if	5
in whom	5
into which	5
that were	5
wherever	5
and as	4
but when	4
from	4
of	4
than	4
they	4
which is	4
while	4
and where	3
he who	3
in what	3
it	3
of whom	3
something	3
that belongs	3
the	3
this	3
though	3
through which	3
which was	3
who are	3
who was	3
whoever	3
about whom	2
according to what	2
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and all that	2
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and to those	2
and wherever	2
and whose	2
anything made of	2
as they did	2
as those	2
as when	2
at which	2
but because	2
during which	2
east of	2
exactly as	2
exactly what	2
for whom	2
from whom	2
her	2
his steward	2
in whatever	2
it as	2
of yours	2
on whom	2
set	2
so when	2
solomons	2
that belonged to	2
that in which	2
that live	2
the covenant	2
the land	2
those whom	2
to	2
to the one	2
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was	2
whichever	2
who belong	2
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you	2
you who	2
a	1
about	1
about them	1
according to	1
administrator	1
against whom	1
all	1
along with all his possessions	1
although	1
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and do exactly as	1
and does what	1
and everything else	1
and his men	1
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and just as	1
and on whatever	1
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any	1
anyone here	1
anything	1
applies	1
are the men	1
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are the ones whom	1
are those of whom	1
article	1
as a comforter	1
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as long as	1
as the occasion	1
as they did before	1
as though	1
as well as in the practices	1
at	1
attached	1
back after	1
because of	1
because of this	1
but	1
but just as	1
but let him who	1
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but whatever	1
by	1
by doing what	1
by the man to whom	1
by these letters	1
by what	1
carefully where	1
caused by	1
containing	1
creature that	1
do	1
do for me as	1
each one	1
even those whom	1
even though	1
even what	1
every kind of	1
everything that has	1
except to prepare	1
for permission	1
for someone who has	1
for the things	1
for them	1
for those	1
for what	1
for when	1
from what	1
from where	1
from your predecessor	1
he owned	1
he owns	1
he sent gifts to those	1
here	1
him	1
his	1
his possessions	1
i ask that	1
i have set these	1
i sat	1
idols	1
if any	1
if however	1
if i ever	1
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if only	1
in	1
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in proportion to how	1
in the order	1
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is just as	1
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is the name	1
is the one who	1
is to blame	1
it is the same	1
it will be like	1
just as you did when	1
just what	1
lest	1
letters	1
like flesh	1
like the one that	1
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male	1
much	1
my	1
near	1
no matter how	1
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of davids	1
of him	1
of him to whom	1
of his	1
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of the kings	1
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once	1
one	1
one of them	1
one with	1
or	1
or for their	1
others	1
over whom	1
place that	1
she	1
she also	1
she who	1
so it is	1
so whatever	1
so wherever	1
some	1
someone else	1
son	1
spoken	1
still others	1
such	1
such as	1
than those who are	1
that anyone	1
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that had	1
that happens	1
that has	1
that is in it	1
that man	1
that the news	1
that those	1
that which	1
the ark that	1
the cities	1
the day	1
the egyptians	1
the house in which	1
the idols	1
the instructions	1
the kind	1
the likes of which	1
the man	1
the name	1
the one who	1
the ones who	1
the overseer	1
the owner	1
the people who	1
the place	1
the places that are	1
the storehouses	1
the vows that	1
the ways of	1
the word that	1
their	1
then	1
these are	1
these people	1
these things	1
they have	1
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thing with which	1
things that	1
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those things by which	1
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those who are	1
those with whom	1
to him on your	1
to one	1
to one of the men who	1
to produce	1
to the keeper	1
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to the steward	1
to those who	1
under	1
until	1
upon which	1
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whether	1
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whomever	1
will not depart	1
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within	1
without	1
yet because	1
you brought them	1
you from	1
you like	1
you whatever	1
you whose	1
your fate	1
your message	1
your own	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
because	10
which	10
that	6
whose	4
whosoever	4
as	3
where	3
wherein	3
whom	3
according to that which	2
for	2
such as	2
what	2
whereas	2
whither	2
according	1
after	1
and because	1
and it came to pass when	1
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and the thing which	1
and they that	1
and to him that	1
and whatsoever	1
and whithersoever	1
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as much as	1
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by which	1
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every thing that	1
for because	1
for him for that	1
for the which	1
from me but thee because	1
him that	1
how	1
howsoever	1
if	1
in that	1
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in whom	1
of her because	1
of which	1
only that which	1
or as when	1
or what	1
so	1
so that	1
that thing which	1
thee and how	1
thee until	1
them	1
them every	1
to me according to that which	1
to whom	1
until	1
upon them and they shall be as though	1
when	1
whereof	1
whereon	1
wheresoever	1
wherewith	1
whilst	1
whithersoever	1
who	1
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Verses containing H834

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Esther 2:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
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Esther 2:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
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Esther 2:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
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Esther 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
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Esther 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
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Esther 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
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Esther 3:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
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Esther 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
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Esther 3:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
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Esther 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
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Esther 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Esther 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.
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Esther 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,
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Esther 4:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
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Esther 4:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.
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Esther 4:11 · BSB · 4 occurrences
“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”
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Esther 4:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
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Esther 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.
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Esther 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
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Esther 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
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Esther 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
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Esther 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
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Esther 5:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
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Esther 5:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
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Esther 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
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Esther 6:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
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Esther 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
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Esther 6:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
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Esther 6:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
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Esther 6:8 · BSB · 3 occurrences
have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.
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Esther 6:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
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Esther 6:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
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Esther 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
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Esther 6:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
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Esther 6:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
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Esther 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
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Esther 7:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
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Esther 7:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
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Esther 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
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Esther 8:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.
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Esther 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
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Esther 8:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
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Esther 8:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
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Esther 8:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
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Esther 8:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
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Esther 8:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
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Esther 8:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
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Esther 8:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
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Esther 9:1 · BSB · 3 occurrences
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
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Esther 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
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