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The Bible states that at his birth, Leah exclaimed, "Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: so she called his name Asher", meaning "happy" (Genesis 30:13). [3] Some scholars argue that the name of Asher may have to do with a deity originally worshipped by the tribe, either Asherah , [ 4 ] or Ashur , the chief Assyrian deity; [ 5 ...
In the biblical account, Joshua assigned to Asher western and coastal Galilee, [6] a region with comparatively low temperature and much rainfall, making it some of the most fertile land in Canaan, with rich pasture, wooded hills, and orchards; as such Asher became particularly prosperous, and known for its olive oil. [7]
Asher is an English-language occupational surname for an ash maker, derived from the Middle English surname "Aschere" or from the German "Äscher" (Ashman). [1] It can also be a form of the Old English surname "Æsċer" (Æsċe + ere), meaning "one who lives by an ash tree or ash grove."
Historian Immanuel Lewy [37] [38] in Commentary mentions "the Biblical habit of representing clans as persons. In the Bible, the twelve tribes of Israel are sons of a man called Jacob or Israel, as Edom or Esau is the brother of Jacob, and Ishmael and Isaac are the sons of Abraham. Elam and Ashur, names of two ancient nations, are sons of a man ...
Ehyeh asher ehyeh (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה) is the first of three responses given to Moses when he asks for God's name in the Book of Exodus. [26] The King James Version of the Bible translates the Hebrew as "I Am that I Am" and uses it as a proper name for God.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Serach bat Asher was, in the Tanakh, a daughter of Asher, the son of Jacob. She is one of the seventy members of the patriarch's family who emigrated from Canaan to Egypt, [1] and her name occurs in connection with the census taken by Moses in the wilderness. [2] She is also mentioned among the descendants of Asher in I Chronicles 7:30.
He was a member of the Tribe of Asher and his name means "Face of God". Theologian John Gill supposed that "this man might be a person of some note, or he may be mentioned for the sake of his name, which signifies the face of God, and is the name Jacob gave to a certain place where he had seen God face to face" ( Genesis 32:30 ). [ 1 ]