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Asher Happy
Asher is a Hebrew name meaning happy, said aw-share'. The eighth son of Jacob, whose name his mother gave because of her own gladness.
Where the name comes from
אָשֵׁר ʼÂshêr — happy; Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory; also a place in Palestine. Strong's H836 derives it: from H833 (אָשַׁר).
Asher in Scripture
The name appears in 41 verses, first at Genesis 30:13.
Genesis 30:13 · KJV
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis 35:26 · KJV
And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.
Genesis 46:17 · KJV
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 · KJV
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Exodus 1:4 · KJV
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Numbers 1:13 · KJV
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 1:40 · KJV
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 · KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:27 · KJV
And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 7:72 · KJV
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers 10:26 · KJV
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 13:13 · KJV
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
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