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Asher

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈæ.ʃə(ɹ)//
  • United States//ˈæ.ʃɚ//

The eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

proper noun

  1. 1

    The eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.

    Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.

  2. 2

    One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Asher.

    And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,

  3. 3

    A male given name from Hebrew.

  4. 4

    rareA female given name from Hebrew.

  5. 5

    A surname.

  6. 6

    A town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.

Etymology

From Hebrew אָשֵׁר ('ashér).

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).