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Asher is an English-language occupational surname for an ash maker, derived from the Middle English surname "Aschere" or from the German "Äscher" (Ashman). [2] 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."
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 ...
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.
Although the term al-ʿashara al-mubashsharūn (sometimes also al-mubashshara, [1] both meaning 'the ten to whom glad tidings were given') itself dates from a period after the 9th century, [10] the list of ten as such already appears on an inscription made upon a plaster table which is thought to have belonged to the palace of Khalid al-Qasri, an Umayyad official who served as the governor of ...
Zain Asher (born 1983), British-born journalist and TV anchor Zain Bhikha (born 1974), South African musician, singer and songwriter Zain Al Fandi (born 1983), Syrian footballer
Abd al-Masih, born Asher ben Levi (Hebrew: אשר בן לוי, Syriac: ܥܒܕܐܠܡܣܝܚ, Arabic: عبد المسيح), [1] is described as a saint and martyr in early Christianity. The name Abd al-Masih ( عبد المسيح ) means "servant/slave of the Messiah" in Arabic .
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