TRV
אָשַׁר
How the KJV Renders It
TranslationStrong’s lists the renderings but not their weight. These are counted from the King James text of the tagged verses — the bar under each is how often the translators actually reached for it. Select one to filter the occurrences below.
Grammatical Forms
MorphologyIn the Hebrew Old Testament, this word appears as a verb across 15 occurrences, inflected in 13 grammatical forms — each row is one form, and the bar is how often it is that form. Select any form to read what each part of its name means, and to filter the occurrence list to it.
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יְאַשְּׁרוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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מְאַשְּׁרֶי
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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תְּאַשְּׁרֵ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Imperfect
- Imperfect with vav — carries narrative forward ("and he…").
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Singular
- One.
- Feminine
- Feminine grammatical gender.
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אִשְּׁרוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Consecutive Perfect
- Perfect with vav — continues a sequence into the future.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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אַשְּׁרוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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אַשֵּׁר
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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תְּאַשֵּׁר
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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יְאַשְּׁרוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Imperfect
- Ongoing or repeated action in the past — "was doing".
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
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מְאַשְּׁרִים
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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אִשְּׁרוּ
- Piel
- The intensive stem — strengthened or emphatic action.
- Perfect
- A completed act whose results continue.
- 3rd
- Third person — the one spoken about ("he"/"they").
- Plural
- More than one.
- common gender
- Either gender — the form does not distinguish.
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מְאֻשָּׁרָי
- Pual
- The passive of the intensive (Piel) stem.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Construct
- Bound to a following noun — "the X of…".
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מְאֻשָּׁר
- Pual
- The passive of the intensive (Piel) stem.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective — describes while carrying the verb's action.
- Passive
- The subject is acted upon.
- Singular
- One.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun (not bound to another).
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אִשְׁרוּ
- Qal
- The simple, basic stem — plain action in the active voice.
- Imperative
- A command or entreaty.
- 2nd
- Second person — the one addressed ("you").
- Plural
- More than one.
- Masculine
- Masculine grammatical gender.
Biblical Distribution
DistributionAppears in 15 verses across 7 of the 39 books. Most frequent in Proverbs (5 verses); never once in the other 32.
Every Occurrence
ConcordanceEvery verse where the word is tagged in the King James text. Filter by book, by the English word the translators chose, by grammatical form, or search within the verses.
Sources. Definition and numbering: James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890). Morphology: STEPBible / Tyndale House (CC BY). Verse tagging: the King James text keyed to Strong’s numbers. Every count on this page is computed from the tagged corpus, not estimated.