Asher
[ˈæʃər]Meaning
means "happy, blessed" in Hebrew, from אָשַׁר (ʾashar), "to be happy, to be blessed"
Background Story
Asher means "happy, blessed" in Hebrew, derived from the root אָשַׁר (ʾashar), "to be happy, to be blessed". In the Old Testament it is the name of a son of Jacob by Leah's handmaid Zilpah, the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the meaning of his name is explained in Genesis 30:13. The name is used in Biblical Greek and Biblical Latin.
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