Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, “I am so happy! Now women will say, ‘She is a happy woman’.” So she named him Asher, because Asher means “happiness.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Then Zilpah had another son for Jacob.

14At the time when the people were gathering the wheat that they had grown, Reuben found some fruit called mandrakes where they were working. He picked some and took them home to his mother Leah. But Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of the mandrakes your son has found.”

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26The sons of Leah's servant Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All these sons were born in Mesopotamia.

Genesis 49:20Then Jacob spoke to his son Asher and said, “Asher, your land will produce good food. It will be so good that a king will eat it.”

Luke 1:48Even though I am so unimportant, he has looked after me. I am only his servant. From today everyone will say, ‘The Lord God has blessed her.’

Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14

Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →

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