Asher
eighth-born son of Jacob (GEN 30:11, GEN 35:26), son of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid
PersonTribe of Ashermale26 verses
Names
- Asher — אָשֵֽׁר asher “Happy One” (H836) · Ασηρ Asēr (G768) — Genesis 30:13
Family
- father of Imnah (son of Asher) (inferred)
- father of Ishvah (inferred)
- father of Ishvi (son of Asher) (inferred)
- father of Beriah (son of Asher) (inferred)
- father of Serah (inferred)
Ancestry
- ancestor of Ochran (inferred)
- ancestor of Michael (father of Sethur)
- ancestor of Shelomi (inferred)
- ancestor of Phanuel (inferred)
Siblings
- half-brother of Issachar (ninth-born son of Jacob, son of Leah) (inferred)
- half-brother of Zebulun (inferred)
- half-brother of Dinah (inferred)
- half-brother of Joseph (eleventh-born son of Jacob and Rachel) (inferred)
- half-brother of Benjamin (twelfth-born son of Jacob and Rachel) (inferred)
Dated events
- Birth of Asher* — 2,260 AH · 1,702 BC · aged 0 — Genesis 30:13
Years are anno hominis, counted from Creation. The two chronologies are given as the source gives them, unreconciled.
Birthplace
- Paddan-aram — Birth of Asher* (Genesis 35:26)
Named together
Appearances
- Genesis 30:13
- Genesis 35:26
- Genesis 46:17
- Genesis 49:20
- Exodus 1:4
- Numbers 1:13
- Numbers 1:40
- Numbers 1:41
- Numbers 2:27
- Numbers 7:72
- Numbers 10:26
- Numbers 13:13
and 14 further references.
Topical references
- 1. Son of Jacob, by Zilpah — Genesis 30:13; Genesis 35:26; Genesis 49:20; Exodus 1:4; 1 Chronicles 2:2
- Descendants of — Genesis 46:17; Numbers 26:44
- 2. Tribe of: Census of, by families — Numbers 1:40; Numbers 1:41; Numbers 26:44; 1 Chronicles 7:40; 1 Chronicles 12:36
- Station of, in camp — Numbers 2:25; Numbers 2:27
- By Moses — Deuteronomy 33:24; Deuteronomy 33:25
- By John — Revelation 7:6
- Allotment to, of land in Canaan — Joshua 19:24; Ezekiel 48:2
- Upbraided by Deborah — Judges 5:17
- Summoned by Gideon — Judges 6:35; Judges 7:23
- Join Hezekiah — 2 Chronicles 30:11
- 3. A city of Shechem — Joshua 17:7; 1 Kings 4:16
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.