Asher

Asher's father was Jacob (Israel) and his mother was Zilpah . His paternal grandparents were Isaac and Rebekah . He had a brother named Gad. He had ten half-brothers and a half-sister, named Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin, Dan, Naphtali and Dinah.

Individual Additional Information
- Relationships
  - Asher had an unspecified social relationship with Ulla .
    
    He had an unspecified social relationship with Jether .

General Notes
- Asher was Jacob's eighth 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).