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Strong's H836 אָשֵׁר (asher)

Asher - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G836 — aulos (“pipe”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H836
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 41
Books 10

Strong's H836 Quick Answer

Strong's H836 אָשֵׁר (Asher) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Asher (aw-share') n/p. 1. Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory 2. also a place in Israel It has 41 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include asher. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
Asher (aw-share') n/p. 1. Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory 2. also a place in Israel
Usage
41 linked usages
Books
10 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
asher

Meaning and Definition

Asher (aw-share') n/p. 1. Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory 2. also a place in Israel [from H833, happy] KJV: Asher Root(s): H833

Original Word
אָשֵׁר
Transliteration
Asher
Derivation
Root: אשׁר First root strongs: 833
Morphology
name

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H836. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

Asher

Usage: A man of the tribe of Asher living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.30.13; son of: Israel (H3478) and Zilpah (H2153); brother of: Gad (H1410); half-brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074), Dinah (H1783), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); father of: Imnah (H3232), Ishvah (H3438), Ishvi (H3440), Beriah (H1283) and Serah (H8294); also translated "pine" or "cypress wood" at Ezk.27.6(?);

Ashurite at 2Sa.2.9(?); § Asher = "happy" 1) son of Jacob and Zilpah 2) the tribe descended from Asher 3) a city east of Shechem in Manasseh

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How Strong's H836 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Asher, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Asher Genesis 30:13 41×

How Strong's H836 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H836 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H836 in the Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 30:13 KJV

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

Genesis 35:26 KJV

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 KJV

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

Usage Excerpts

First 41 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H836.

Genesis 30:13 Old Testament, KJV
And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.
Genesis 35:26 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Exodus 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Numbers 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Of Asher; Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 1:40 Old Testament, KJV
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 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 2:27 Old Testament, KJV
And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 7:72 Old Testament, KJV
On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:
Numbers 10:26 Old Testament, KJV
And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.
Numbers 13:13 Old Testament, KJV
Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
Numbers 26:44 Old Testament, KJV
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 26:46 Old Testament, KJV
And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
Numbers 26:47 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 34:27 Old Testament, KJV
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.
Deuteronomy 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Deuteronomy 33:24 Old Testament, KJV
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Joshua 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Joshua 17:11 Old Testament, KJV
And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.
Joshua 19:24 Old Testament, KJV
And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.
Joshua 19:31 Old Testament, KJV
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Joshua 19:34 Old Testament, KJV
And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
Joshua 21:6 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Joshua 21:30 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,
Judges 1:31 Old Testament, KJV
Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
Judges 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges 6:35 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Judges 7:23 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
1 Kings 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and in Aloth:
1 Chronicles 2:2 Old Testament, KJV
Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
1 Chronicles 6:62 Old Testament, KJV
And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
1 Chronicles 6:74 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,
1 Chronicles 7:30 Old Testament, KJV
The sons of Asher; Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.
1 Chronicles 7:40 Old Testament, KJV
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.
1 Chronicles 12:36 Old Testament, KJV
And of Asher, such as went forth to battle, expert in war, forty thousand.
2 Chronicles 30:11 Old Testament, KJV
Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
Ezekiel 48:2 Old Testament, KJV
And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Asher.
Ezekiel 48:3 Old Testament, KJV
And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Naphtali.
Ezekiel 48:34 Old Testament, KJV
At the west side four thousand and five hundred, with their three gates; one gate of Gad, one gate of Asher, one gate of Naphtali.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H836, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Old Testament
Numbers 11 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 8 usages, Old Testament
Judges 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 6 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H836 FAQ

What does asher (אָשֵׁר) mean?

Asher (Strong's H836) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Asher". Asher (aw-share') n/p. 1. Asher, a son of Jacob, and the tribe descended from him, with its territory 2. also a place in Israel

How many times is asher (אָשֵׁר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 41 linked usages for Strong's H836 across 10 books.

Where can I study asher (אָשֵׁר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H836 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate asher (אָשֵׁר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as asher. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.