Person

Asher

אָשֵׁר

Happy; blessed.

Asher is Jacob’s son by Zilpah. His tribe settled along the northern coastal plain, a land noted for richness.

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אָשֵׁר H836

ʼÂshêr · aw-share'

happy; Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory; also a place in Palestine

from H833 (אָשַׁר),

KJV glosses: Asher

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

אָשֵׁר H836

Biblical Hebrew

אָשֵׁר proper name, masculine Asher (happy one, Felix, compare Phoenician אשרשלח, which however may contain (god) Asshur or Osiris, compare BaeRel 161). 1. son of Jacob and Zilpah Gen 30:13; Gen 35:26; Gen 46:17; Exod 1:4; Num 26:46; 1Chr 2:2.

2. the tribe Gen 49:20; Num 1:13; Deut 27:13; Deut 33:24 (twice in verse); Josh 17:10; Josh 17:11; Josh 19:34; Judg 1:31; Judg 5:17; Judg 6:36; Judg 7:23; 1Kgs 4:16; 1Chr 12:36; 2Chr 30:11; Ezek 48:2; Ezek 48:3; Ezek 48:34 בְּנֵי אָשֵׁר Num 1:40; Num 2:27; Num 7:72; Num 10:26; Num 26:44; Num 26:47; Num 34:27; Josh 19:24; Josh 19:31; 1Chr 7:30; 1Chr 7:40 מַטֵּה אָשֵׁר Num 1:41; Num 2:27; Num 13:13; Josh 21:6; Josh 21:30; 1Chr 6:47; 1Chr 6:59.

3. proper name, of a location city east of Shechem Josh 17:7.