Asher
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....
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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....
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And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and
Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber,
and Malchiel....
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(Hebrew: אָשֵׁר, Modern Asher Tiberian ʼĀšēr), in the Book of
Genesis, is the second son of Jacob and Zilpah, and the
founder of the Tribe of Asher. He was born on the 20th of
Shevat 2199 (1562 BCE). According to some accounts 20th of
Shevat is also the date of his passing.
Ashar is also a place in Israel. Asher played a role in the
plot to se...
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ash'-er ('asher; Aser).
1. Biblical Account:
According to the Biblical account Asher was the eighth of
Jacob's sons, the second borne to him by Zilpah the handmaid
of Leah. His uterine brother was Gad (Gen 35:26). With four
sons and one daughter he went down into Egypt (Gen 46:17).
At his birth Leah exclaimed, "Happy am I! for the daughte...
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1. Son of Jacob, by Zilpah
Ge 30:13; 35:26; 49:20; Ex 1:4; 1Ch 2:2
Descendants of
Ge 46:17; Nu 26:44-47
-2. Tribe of: Census of, by families
Nu 1:40,41; 26:44-47; 1Ch 7:40; 12:36
Station of, in camp
Nu 2:25,27
Prophecies concerning
By Moses
De 33:24,25
By John
Re 7:6
Allotment to, of land in Canaan
Jos 19:24-31; Eze 48:2
Upbraided by...
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Apocrypha and New Testament, A'ser (blessed), the eighth son
of Jacob, by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid. Ge 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. Jos
19:24-31; 17:10,11 and Judg 1:31,32
They pos...
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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 t...
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ASHER or ASER.
1. Eighth son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid
(Genesis 30:13). "In my happiness the daughters will call me
happy: and she called his name Asher" (happy.) Asher had
four sons and one daughter, the heads of families (Numbers
26:44-47). At the Exodus they numbered 41,500; at the close
of the forty years in the wilderness 53,4...
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