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Asher
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Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Asher - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
Happy, Jacob's eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Gen. 30:13). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (35:26; 46:17; Ex. 1:4, 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 (Num. 2:27). 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 Josh. 19:24-31; Judg. 1:31, 32. 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 (Luke 2:36).
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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Additional entry
Apocrypha and New Testament, Aser (blessed), the eighth son of Jacob, by Zilpah, Leahs handmaid. (Genesis 30:13) (B.C. 1753.) The general position of his tribe was on the seashore from Carmel northward with Manasseh on the south, Zebulun and Issachar on the southeast, and Naphtali on the north-east. (Joshua 19:24-31; 17:10,11) and Judg 1:31,32 They possessed the maritime portion of the rich plain of Esdraelon;, probably for a distance of 8 or 10 miles from the shore. This territory contained some of the richest soil in all Palestine.William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
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Definition
Asher was Jacob’s eighth son. He was Zilpah’s second son. His descendants became one of the tribes of Israel.
- The tribe descended from him was known as the “tribe of Asher” or “Asher.”
- His name sounds similar to a Hebrew word meaning “blessed, happy.”
- The tribe of Asher settled in the northwest corner of Canaan, on the Mediterannean Sea. When used as the name of a region of land, the term “Asher” refers to the land given to the tribe of Asher.
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(See also: twelve tribes of Israel, Jacob, Zilpah)
Bible References
Word Data
- Strong’s: H0836
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