People of the Bible
Asher
also called Aser · 1751 BC – · Tribe of Asher
Family
- Father
- Jacob (Israel)
- Mother
- Zilpah
- Brothers and sisters
- Gad
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Dinah, Issachar, Joseph (son of Jacob), Judah (patriarch), Levi (patriarch), Naphtali, Reuben, Simeon, Zebulun
- Children
- Beriah, Imnah, Isuah, Isui, Serah
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Birth of Asher · 1751 BC
- Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC
- 7 years of famine · 1707 BC
- Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid (Gen. 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; Ex. 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 (Num. 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 Josh. 19:24-31; Judg. 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).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 43 verses
- Genesis
- 30:13, 35:26, 46:17, 49:20
- Exodus
- 1:4
- Numbers
- 1:13, 1:40, 1:41, 2:27, 7:72, 10:26, 13:13, 26:44, 26:46, 26:47, 34:27
- Deuteronomy
- 27:13, 33:24
- Joshua
- 17:7, 17:10, 17:11, 19:24, 19:31, 19:34, 21:6, 21:30
- Judges
- 1:31, 5:17, 6:35, 7:23
- 1 Kings
- 4:16
- 1 Chronicles
- 2:2, 6:62, 6:74, 7:30, 7:40, 12:36
- 2 Chronicles
- 30:11
- Ezekiel
- 48:2, 48:3, 48:34
- Luke
- 2:36
- Revelation
- 7:6
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.