EASTON’S BIBLE DICTIONARY (1897 EDITION)
Asher – 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).
