Asher
Gender: Male
Years: -1752 - 96
Dictionary Text: Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid. Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes, etc. It increased in numbers twenty-nine percent, during the thirty-eight years’ wanderings. The place of this tribe during the march through the desert was between Dan and Naphtali. The boundaries of the inheritance given to it, which contained some of the richest soil in Palestine, and the names of its towns, are recorded in;,. Asher and Simeon were the only tribes west of the Jordan which furnished no hero or judge for the nation. Anna the prophetess was of this tribe.
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- 1 Kings 4:16: Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
- Judges 1:31: Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
- Numbers 26:44: Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
- Deuteronomy 33:24: And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
- Joshua 21:6: And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- Numbers 10:26: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- Ezekiel 48:2: And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
- Numbers 7:72: On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
- Numbers 26:46: And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
- Genesis 49:20: Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
- Judges 5:17: Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
- Numbers 26:47: These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 6:74: And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
- Numbers 1:13: Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- Numbers 2:27: And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
- Ezekiel 48:3: And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
- Joshua 19:34: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
- Joshua 19:31: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
- 2 Chronicles 30:11: Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
- Exodus 1:4: Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Joshua 21:30: And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
- Numbers 34:27: And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
- Revelation 7:6: Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
- Ezekiel 48:34: At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.
- Joshua 19:24: And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
- Deuteronomy 27:13: And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
- Numbers 1:41: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
- 1 Chronicles 2:2: Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Judges 7:23: And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
- 1 Chronicles 12:36: And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
- Joshua 17:7: And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
- Genesis 35:26: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
- Numbers 1:40: Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Genesis 46:17: And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.
- 1 Chronicles 6:62: And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 7:30: The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
- Joshua 17:11: And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
- Numbers 13:13: Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
- Judges 6:35: And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
- Luke 2:36: And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
- Joshua 17:10: Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
- 1 Chronicles 7:40: All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.
- Genesis 30:13: And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.