Person
Asher
Also called Aser
Mentioned in 43 verses across 12 books, first in Ezekiel 48:2. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).
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In the Bible
All 3 verses in Ezekiel, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 48:2
Asher will have one portion bordering the territory of Dan from east to west.
- Ezekiel 48:3
Naphtali will have one portion bordering the territory of Asher from east to west.
- Ezekiel 48:34
And on the west side, which will be 4,500 cubits long, there will be three gates: the gate of Gad, the gate of Asher, and the gate of Naphtali.
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).