King James Bible Dictionary

Happy, Jacob's eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Genesis 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; Exodus 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 (Numbers 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 Joshua 19:24-31; Judges 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).

happiness

1. Son of Jacob, by Zilpah
Genesis 30:13; Genesis 35:26; Genesis 49:20; Exodus 1:4; 1 Chronicles 2:2

2. Descendants of
Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44-47

3. Tribe of:

Census of, by families
Numbers 1:40-41; Numbers 26:44-47; 1 Chronicles 7:40; 1 Chronicles 12:36

Station of, in camp
Numbers 2:25; Numbers 2:27

Prophecies concerning, by Moses
Deuteronomy 33:24-25

Prophecies concerning, by John
Revelation 7:6

Allotment to, of land in Canaan
Joshua 19:24-31; Ezekiel 48:2

Upbraided by Deborah
Judges 5:17

Summoned by Gideon
Judges 6:35; Judges 7:23

Join Hezekiah
2 Chronicles 30:11

4. A city of Shechem
Joshua 17:7; 1 Kings 4:16

1. Apocrypha and New Testament, A'ser (blessed), 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 Esdr'lon;, probably for a distance of 8 or 10 miles from the shore. This territory contained some of the richest soil in all Palestine.
2. 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.
3. a city on the Jordan, "beside Zaretan," in the time of Joshua. (Joshua 3:16)

And pl. Asherim in Revised Version, instead of "grove" and "groves" of the Authorized Version. This was the name of a sensual Canaanitish goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symbol was the stem of a tree deprived of its boughs, and rudely shaped into an image, and planted in the ground. Such religious symbols ("groves") are frequently alluded to in Scripture (Exodus 34:13; Judges 6:25; 2 Kings 23:6; 1 Kings 16:33, etc.). These images were also sometimes made of silver or of carved stone (2 Kings 21:7; "the graven image of Asherah," R.V.). (See GROVE.).

(straight), the name of a Phoenician goddess, or rather of the idol itself (Authorized Version "grove"). Asherah is closely connected with ASHTORETH and her worship, (Judges 3:7) comp. Judges 2:3; 6:25; 1 Kings 18:19 Ashtoreth being, perhaps, the proper name of the goddess, whilst Asherah is the name of her image or symbol, which was of wood. See (Judges 6:25-30; 2 Kings 23:14)

descendants of Asher, and members of his tribe. (Judges 1:32)