אָשֵׁר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H836

Asher — used 43 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Asher tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָשֵׁר: n.pr.m. Asher n.pr.loc. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. Asher (happy one, Felix, cf. Ph. אשרשלח, which however may contain (god) Asshur or Osiris, cf. BaeRel 161). son of Jacob and Zilpah Gn 30:13; 35:26; 46:17 Ex 1:4 Nu 26:46 1 Ch 2:2. the tribe Gn 49:20 Nu 1:13 Dt 27:13; 33:24(×2) Jos 17:10, 11; 19:34 Ju 1:31; 5:17; 6:35; 7:23 1 K 4:16 1 Ch 12:36 2 Ch 30:11 Ez 48:2, 3, 34; בְּנֵי אָשֵׁר Nu 1:40; 2:27; 7:72; 10:26; 26:44, 47; 34:27 Jos 19:24, 31 1 Ch 7:30, 40; מַטֵּה אָשֵׁר Nu 1:41; 2:27; 13:13 Jos 21:6, 30 1 Ch 6:47, 59. n.pr.loc. city E. of Shechem Jos 17:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 40 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Asher (22); Asher (21).

In the verses

Numbers 1:13 · tree →

לְאָשֵׁ֕ר פַּגְעִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־עָכְרָֽן׃

Word for word: for Asher Pagiel the.son of.Ocran

JPS 1917: Of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Numbers 26:46 · tree →

וְשֵׁ֥ם בַּת־אָשֵׁ֖ר שָֽׂרַח׃

Word for word: and the.name of.the.daughter of.Asher [was].Serah

JPS 1917: And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

On Mova

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Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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