אָשֵׁרִי
Asherites
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H843 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges 1 verse
About this entry
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אשרי — transliterated ʼÂshêrîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Asherites.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Judges (100% of all occurrences). Found nowhere else but Judges 1:32. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H843 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Most concentrated in
- Judges 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Asherites 1×
- American Standard Version: Asherites 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Asherites 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Asherite 1×
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American Standard Version Public Domain
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Asherites = "happy"
- those descended from Asher
Word origin
אָשֵׁרִי adj.gent. c. art. הָא׳ as n.coll. Ju 1:32.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אשר (ʼÂshêr) (H836) — Asher.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אַשְׁרֵי
- , v. אֶשֶׁר
שְׁרֵי
- 1. to untie, unharness; to disengage, dismiss. Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 32 וש׳ גמליא (ed. Berl. וש׳ מן ג׳; Y. ושָׁ׳ זממי ג׳ Pa.; h. text ויפתח). Targ. Job XXX, 11. Targ. O. Ex. III, 5 (h. text של); a. fr.—Pes. 113ᵃ שְׁרִי כיסך פתח שפיך untie thy purse (to receive the money), open thy bag (to deliver the goods), i.e. sell for cash. Snh. 98ᵃ כולהון שְׁרוֹ ואסירי … איהו ש׳ חד וכ׳ all of them untie and tie up (their sores) at once (untie all of them, and then tie them up), but he unties and ties up one at a time. Pesik. R. s. 22 [read:] שַׁרְתַּנְהוֹן … ע"ג סודרא she untied them (the two Denars), and placed them on the shawl. Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ bot. אתת … ושַׁרְתוּן וכ׳ (fr. שרה, cmp. חֲמֵי) when prayer time came, he untied them (the coins), and gave them to R. H.; [read:] קטר פורתיה לפורתיה ויהבון לשמעיה ושרתון וערק he tied his (R. Ḥ’s) share to his own, and gave them to his servant, but he (the servant) untied them and ran away. Y. Meg. IV, 75ᵇ bot. שְׁרוֹן ליה וכ׳, v. סַפְרוּתָא. Y. Keth. XII, 35ᵃ שרון גרמון ומנוניה they dismissed themselves (resigned their office) and appointed him (Hillel) in their place; a. fr.—ש׳ תיגרא to solve a dispute, to settle or decide a case. Ned. 62ᵃ שְׁרוּ לי תיגראי ברישא take my case up first. Yeb. 100ᵃ שָׁרֵינָא וכ׳, v. תִּגְרָא I; a. e.
- 2. to allow, permit; to forgive; to absolve (= h. הִתִּיר). Targ. Y. Num. XXX, 3. Targ. Y. II, Gen. XXII, 14. Targ. Y. II, Num. XIV, 20; a. fr.—Kidd. 13ᵇ הוא אסרה והוא שַׁרְתָהּ (Rashi שרי לה) he tied her (by marrying her), and he untied her (through his death, that she can dispose of herself). Y. Ber. II, 5ᵇ אינון שַׁרְיָין ואינון אסרין do the same men permit and forbid? Y. Snh. VII, end, 25ᵈ [read:] שַׁרְיִי מה דעבדתין אמרה ליה לי נא שַׁרְיָיה undo what thou hast done (by charm); said she to him, I will not undo. Bab. Snh. 99ᵃ ש׳ ליה מריה וכ׳ the Lord forgive R. Hillel. Ab. Zar. 37ᵃ וקרו לן בית דינא שָׁרְיָא and they might call us a permitting court (of lax practice). Ib. כי שְׁרִיתוּהָ לאלתר שריתוה וכ׳ when you permitted her (to marry again), did you permit her to marry at once &c.? Ib. וקרו ליה יוסף שריא and they called him Joseph the permitter. Ib. אנא נמי שְׁרָאִי אחריתי Ms. M. (ed. אנא שרא, corr. acc.) I also permitted another thing (which was forbidden heretofore); a. v. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁרֵי, שַׁרְיָא; f. שַׁרְיָא. Targ. II Esth. III, 8 יומא ש׳ a permitted day (free for trade).—Bets. 3ᵇ לדידי אפי׳ … ש׳ according to my opinion it is permitted even on the first day. Ib. 22ᵃ אפי׳ בשבת ש׳ it is permitted even on the Sabbath. Ned. 62ᵃ ש׳ ליה לאינש לאודועי וכ׳ a man is permitted to make himself known (as a scholar) in a place where they do not know him; a. fr.
- 3. [to loosen the girdle,] to sit down for a meal; trnsf. to start, begin. Targ. Deut. XVI, 9 (O. ed. Berl. תְּשָׁרֵי, Pa.). Targ. II Esth. III, 7; a. fr.—Lam. R. to I, 1 (רבתי) כמה דשְׁרִין למיכל (ed. Wil. דשְׁרוֹ) when they sat down to eat. Y. Dem. I, 21ᵈ bot.; Y. Shek. V, 48ᵈ top שַׁרְיַית מנהקה (not שוריית) she began to bray; a. fr.—Trnsf. (cmp. meanings of b. h. יָאַל Hif.) to consent, be willing. Targ. Josh. VII, 7. Ib. XVII, 12. Targ. Job VI, 9; 28; a. fr.
- 4. to encamp, dwell, rest. Targ. I Sam. XXVI, 5. Targ. Num. II, 2, sq. Targ. Ex. XL, 35. Targ. Ps. XVI, 8, sq.; a. fr.—Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵃ חמריא שרון וכ׳ ass-drivers took lodging in an inn. Lam. R. to I, 1 רבתי אשכח … שרון יתבין וכ׳ (חד מירוש׳) he found men that had taken lodging there, and sat eating and drinking. Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᶜ bot. ע"י דהוה ש׳ תמן וכ׳ because he lived there (in Babylonia) &c. Gen. R. s. 20 ויתיר … שרי, v. פָּרָא II. Snh. 39ᵃ כל בי … שָׁרְיָא the Shechinah dwells wherever ten persons are assembled; a. fr.
- same,
- 1. to untie, loosen. Targ. Ps. XXX, 12 (ed. Wil. Pe.). Targ. Job XII, 18 (ed. Wil. מַשְׁרֵי Af.); a. e.
- 2. to begin. Targ. O. Deut. I, 5 (Y. שׁוֹרֵי Poel). Ib. II, 24 (O. ed. Vien. Pe.). Ib. 25. Targ. Jer. IV, 31; a. fr.—Targ. Prov. XIII, 12 דמְשָׁרֵי למעדריה (not משדי, v. Pesh. a. LXX) who begins to help himself (h. text תחלת ממשכה!).
- 3. to cause to rest, v. infra.
- 1. to untie, v. supra.
- 2. to cause to encamp or dwell, to let rest. Targ. Gen. II, 15. Targ. Jer. VII, 7. Targ. Ps. XXIII, 2. Ib. LXXIV, 2 Ms. (ed. Pa.); a. fr.—Sabb. 67ᵃ הסנה … א׳ קודשא וכ׳ O thornbush! not because thou art higher than all other trees did the Lord let his Presence rest upon thee &c. Koh. R. to III, 9, end כל … לא מַשְׁרִין וכ׳ (in the hereafter) they allow every one to dwell only with his fellow tradesmen; ib. beg. מתרין (corr. acc.); a. e.
- 1. to be untied, loosened. Targ. Is. V, 27.—Lev. R. s. 14, v. חֲבִילָא II; a. e.
- 2. to be permitted. Yeb. 106ᵃ כי היכי דתִישְׁתְּרִי לעלמא in order that she may be free to marry again. Bets. 2ᵇ יו"ט בעלמא תשתרי let it be permitted for use on any other Holy Day (not followed by the Sabbath); a. e.
- 3. to be begun, begin. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXVII, 17. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 96, v. שַׁכְלֵל.—Y. Ter. VIII, 46ᵃ מישרי נבח בהון (prob. to be read: אישרי) he began to bark at them; ib. מישרי מתרתר, v. תַּרְתֵּר.—[Lev. R. s. 13 אשתריתין, v. שְׁתַר.]
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H843, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Proper names from this root
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Asherites). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
descendants of Asher, and members of his tribe. (Judges 1:32)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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