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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

The seven seals and the four horsemen; the 144,000

At a glance

Gender

Male

Ussher–Jones reckoning

born c. 1752 BC

F. N. Jones’s Ussher-style chronology, used by Theographic: one of several traditional counts, added up from the ages and reigns in the Hebrew text. The Jewish count (Seder Olam) and the Septuagint’s figures differ from it, for early Genesis by centuries. Not a scholarly date.

Dates before the time of the kings are not historically established, and scholars disagree widely about them.

Group

Tribe of Asher

Family

Parents

Siblings

Gadson of Jacob (Israel)

Half-siblings (same father)

Children

Serah
Isui
Beriahson of Asher
Isuah
Imnahson of Asher

As the dataset records them from the biblical genealogies.

Often appears with

Named in the same verses most often. Sharing a verse doesn’t always mean they met.

Naphtali9 verses
Manasseh (son of Joseph)9 verses
Dan5 verses
Gadson of Jacob (Israel)5 verses
Pagiel4 verses
Zebulun4 verses
Ocran4 verses
Imnahson of Asher3 verses
Isui3 verses
Beriahson of Asher3 verses
Serah3 verses
Gershon2 verses
Isuah2 verses
Leah2 verses

Places

Where the data places them (born, died, or an event they take part in) first; then places named in the same verses, which does not mean they were there.

Egyptscene of “Joseph sold to Egypt”; scene of “Joseph's brothers return to Egypt”
Asher12 shared verses
West Manasseh3 shared verses
Bashan2 shared verses
Abdon2 shared verses
Issachar2 shared verses
Jordan2 shared verses
Taanach1 shared verse
Sidon1 shared verse
Mishal1 shared verse
Dor1 shared verse
En-dor1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 4 verses in Genesis, 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.

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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 BC
Birth of AsherGenesis 30:12–13
c. 1728 BC
Joseph sold to EgyptGenesis 37:3–36 · at Egypt
c. 1708 BC
7 years of famineGenesis 41:54–43:34
c. 1706 BC
Joseph's brothers return to EgyptGenesis 43:1–45:28 · at 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).

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In the Bible

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