Asher
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A member of the alt.suicide.holiday newsgroup, which deals with the topics of suicide and depression.
"ANYONE who first stumbles upon ash is bound to want to SAVE these desperately unhappy people. If you think Daisy was the first or last person trying to knock sense into the ashers, you are wrong. And from my observations, Anyone with only good intentions, (say trying to give ashers a spiritual outlook) is visciously ^([sic]) attacked by ash."
- 1 The eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
"Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram."
- 2 One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Asher.
"And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs,"
- 3 A male given name from Hebrew.
- 4 A female given name from Hebrew. rare
- 5 A surname.
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- 6 A town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
Example
More examples"These are the names of the children of Israel, that went into Egypt with Jacob: they went in every man with his household: Ruben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zabulon, and Benjamin, Dan, and Nephthali, Gad and Asher."
Etymology
From Hebrew אָשֵׁר ('ashér).
Initialism of alt.suicide.holiday + -er.
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