Asher:
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; Exd 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; Jdg 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 (Luk 2:36).
Asher:
happiness
Asher:
(blessed.)
Apocrypha and New Testament, A'ser, the eighth son of Jacob, by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Genesis 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 (Joshua 19:24-31; 17:10, 11 and Judges 1:31-32). They possessed the maritime portion of the rich plain of Esdraelon, probably for a distance of 8 or 10 miles from the shore. This territory contained some of the richest soil in all Palestine.
a place which formed one boundary of the tribe of Manasseh on the south (Joshua 17:7). Mr. Porter suggests that Teyasir may be the Asher of Manasseh. Handbook, p.348.
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