Person
Asher
Also called Aser
Mentioned in 43 verses across 12 books, first in Genesis 30:13. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
In these stories
In the Bible
The first 10 of 43 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Genesis
- Genesis 30:13
Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
- Genesis 35:26
And the sons of Leah’s maidservant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
- Genesis 46:17
The children of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- Genesis 49:20
Asher’s food will be rich; he shall provide royal delicacies.
Exodus
- Exodus 1:4
Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
Numbers
- Numbers 1:13
from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran;
- Numbers 1:40
From the sons of Asher, according to the records of their clans and families, counting the names of all those twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,
- Numbers 1:41
those registered to the tribe of Asher numbered 41,500.
- Numbers 2:27
The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ocran,
- Numbers 7:72
On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, the leader of the Asherites, drew near.
Events
Events the dataset lists Asher as taking part in. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1752 BCBirth of Asher
- c. 1728 BCJoseph sold to Egypt
- c. 1708 BC7 years of famine
- c. 1706 BCJoseph's brothers return to Egypt
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
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).