Asher: meaning of the name

Asher in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Asher in the Bible

• Asher, son of Israel

  43 verses · first mentioned in Genesis 30:13 · Tribe of Asher

Asher in Scripture

“Asher” appears in 41 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Genesis 30:13

  And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

• Genesis 35:26

  And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

• Genesis 46:17

  And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

• Genesis 49:20

  Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

• Exodus 1:4

  Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

• Numbers 1:13

  Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.

• Numbers 1:40

  Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

• Numbers 1:41

  Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.