Asher

Who

Key verses

1. Genesis 30:13

   Leah said, “Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy.” She named him Asher.

2. Genesis 35:26

   The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

3. 1 Chronicles 2:2

   Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

4. Luke 2:36

   There was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

Where the Bible names him

Family

Parents

• JJacob1 Chronicles 2:1–2
• ZZilpahGenesis 35:26

Brothers and sisters

• JJudah
• RReuben
• SSimeon
• LLevi
• IIssachar
• ZZebulun
• DDan
• JJoseph
• BBenjamin
• NNaphtali
• GGad
• DDinah

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name him (8 of 30).

• Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:36–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Simeon had prophesied, a woman united in marriage had prophesied, a virgin had prophesied, it was meet also that a widow should prophesy, that there might lack no sex or condition of life, and therefore it is said,…

• Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 2:36–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  The Evangelist dwells some time on the account of Anna, mentioning both her father’s tribe, and adding, as it were, many witnesses who knew her father and her tribe.

• Gregory of Nyssa on Luke 2:36–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  Or because at that time there were several others who were called by the same name, that there might be a plain way of distinguishing her, he mentions her father, and describes the quality of her parents.

• Ambrose of Milan on Luke 2:36–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke

  Now Anna, both from the duties of her widowhood and her manner of life, is found to be such that she is thought worthy to announce the Redeemer of the world. As it follows, She was of a great age, and had lived with…

• Origen on Luke 2:36–38Catena Aurea on Luke

  For the Holy Spirit dwelt not by chance in her. For the highest blessing, if any can possess it, is the grace of virginity, but if this cannot be, and it chance to a woman to lose her husband, let her remain a widow,…

• Origen on Luke 2:36–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke

  From which it is plain that she possessed a multitude of other virtues; and mark how she resembles Simeon in his goodness, for they were both in the temple together, and both counted worthy of prophetic grace, as it…

• Theophylact of Ohrid on Luke 2:36–38 (2)Catena Aurea on Luke

  That is, returned thanks for seeing in Israel the Saviour of the world, and she confessed of Jesus that He was the Redeemer and the Saviour. Hence it follows, And she spoke of him to all, &c.

• Origen on Luke 2:36–38 (3)Catena Aurea on Luke

  But because Anna’s words were nothing remarkable, and of no great note respecting Christ, the Gospel does not give the particulars of what she said, and perhaps for this reason one may suppose that Simeon anticipated…