Genesis 30:13

Leah said, “Now I am very happy, and people will call me happy.” So she named him Asher, which means ‘happy.’

Translation for Translators

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

12Later Leah’s slave, Zilpah, gave birth to another son for Jacob.

14When it was time to harvest wheat, Reuben went out into the fields and saw some ◄mandrakes/plants that women eat to help them to become pregnant►. He brought some of them to his mother Leah. But Rachel saw them and said to Leah, “Please give me some of those plants that your son brought to you!”

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Cross References

Genesis 35:26The sons of Leah’s female slave Zilpah were Gad and Asher. All those sons of Jacob, except Benjamin, were born while he was living in Paddan-Aram/Mesopotamia.

Genesis 49:20Asher, your descendants will eat good-tasting food; they will produce food that is delicious enough for kings to eat.

Proverbs 31:28Her children all together speak highly of her, and her husband also praises her.

Luke 1:48I was only his lowly servant girl, but he did not forget me. So from now on, everyone will say that God was pleased with me,

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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