Asher

Leah gave this boy his name with a glad word: “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed” (Genesis 30:13). Asher grew into one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and into a tribe. Jacob’s blessing promised that “Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties” (Genesis 49:20). The tribe was counted in the wilderness in Numbers, and in Joshua 19 it received a long stretch of land toward the sea, reaching toward Carmel, Tyre and Zidon. Most of the entries are lists of names and towns, so start with Leah’s joy in Genesis 30.

23 verses

Genesis

Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Genesis 35:26

And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padanaram.

Genesis 46:17

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

Genesis 49:20

Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

Exodus

Exodus 1:4

Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Numbers

Numbers 1:40

Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

Numbers 1:41

Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

Numbers 26:44

Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

Numbers 26:45

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

Numbers 26:46

And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

Numbers 26:47

These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Joshua

Joshua 17:7

And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.

Joshua 19:24

And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

Joshua 19:25

And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

Joshua 19:26

And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;

Joshua 19:27

And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

Joshua 19:28

And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon;

Joshua 19:29

And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

Joshua 19:30

Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

Joshua 19:31

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

Judges

Judges 6:35

And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; who also was gathered after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

1 Kings

1 Kings 4:16

Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 7:40

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father's house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

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).

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From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

Asher

a place which formed one boundary of the tribe of Manasseh on the south. (Joshua 17:7) Mr. Porter suggests that Teyasir may be the Asher of Manasseh. Handbook , p.348.

Asher

Apocrypha and New Testament, A”ser (blessed), the eighth son of Jacob, by Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid. (Genesis 30:13) (B.C. 1753.) The general position of his tribe was on the seashore from Carmel northward with Manasseh on the south, Zebulun and Issachar on the southeast, and Naphtali on the north-east. (Joshua 19:24-31; 17:10,11) and Judg 1:31,32 They possessed the maritime portion of the rich plain of Esdraelon;, probably for a distance of 8 or 10 miles from the shore. This territory contained some of the richest soil in all Palestine.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Dictionary entries from Easton's Bible Dictionary and Smith's Bible Dictionary. Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.