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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 ...
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."
It is connected to the passage in Exodus 3:14 in which God gives his name as אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה , Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh, translated most basically as "I am that I am" or "I shall be what I am". In the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 3:14), it is the personal name of God, revealed directly to Moses. [1]
According to the Hebrew Bible, in the encounter of the burning bush (Exodus 3:14), Moses asks what he is to say to the Israelites when they ask what gods have sent him to them, and YHWH replies, "I am who I am", adding, "Say this to the people of Israel, 'I am has sent me to you. ' " [4] Despite this exchange, the Israelites are never written to have asked Moses for the name of God. [13]
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.
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]
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.
The name of God associated with Keter is "Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh" (Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה), the name through which he revealed himself to Moses from the burning bush. [1] Keter, although being the highest sefirah of its world, receives from the sefirah of Malkuth of the domain above it (see Sephirot).