Birth Year:1765 BC ³

Dictionary Summary:Happy, Jacob’s eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid ([Gen. 30:13](/gen#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](/exod#Exod.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](/num#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](/josh#Josh.19.24); [Judg. 1:31](/judg#Judg.1.31), [32](/judg#Judg.1.32). 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](/luke#Luke.2.36)). ²