# H836 אָשֵׁר

אָשֵׁר (ʼÂshêr), Strong’s H836: happy; Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory; also a place in Palestine KJV: Asher. Occurs 43 times.

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*ʼÂshêr* — happy; Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory; also a place in Palestine

KJV: Asher

Derived from [אָשַׁר ʼâshar](https://besorah.bible/word/H833) (to be straight)

Occurs 43 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אָשֵׁר n.pr.m. Asher (happy one, Felix)
- 1 son of Jacob and Zilpah
- 2 the tribe
- 3 n.pr.loc. city E. of Shechem

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=13) — Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.
- [Genesis 35:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=26) — The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.
- [Genesis 46:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/46?v=17) — The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and Serah their sister. The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.
- [Genesis 49:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=20) — “Asher’s food will be rich. He will produce royal dainties.
- [Exodus 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=4) — Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
- [Numbers 1:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=13) — Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran.
- [Numbers 1:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=40) — Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of…
- [Numbers 1:41](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/1?v=41) — those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty-one thousand five hundred.
- [Numbers 2:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/2?v=27) — “Those who encamp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher. The prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son…
- [Numbers 7:72](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/7?v=72) — On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ochran, prince of the children of Asher,