To bless
אָשַׁרStrong’s H0833ashar (a-shar)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ashar is the Hebrew word usually translated “called blessed her”, “call happy me” and “it called blessed me”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.”
Meaning
- To go straight, walk, go on, advance, make progress(Qal) to go straight on, make progress · (Piel) · (Pual)
How it's translated
- and they called blessed her 2
- they will call happy me 1
- and it called blessed me 1
- and he will be called blessed 1
- may they call blessed him 1
- called blessed 1
- you advance 1
- and advance 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 5
- Isaiah 3
- Psalms 2
- Malachi 2
- Genesis 1
- Job 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Job 29:11When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
- Psalms 41:2The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
- Psalms 72:17His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
- Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
- Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
- Proverbs 9:6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Hebrew dictionary
אָשַׁר ashar · to bless
1) to go straight, walk, go on, advance, make progress 1a)(Qal) to go straight on, make progress 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to go straight on, advance 1b2) to lead on (causative) 1b3) to set right, righten 1b4) to pronounce happy, call blessed 1c) (Pual) 1c1) to be advanced, be led on 1c2) to be made happy, be blessed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bless” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BLESS, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle present tense blessed or blest.
- To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.“And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him” Genesis 28:1
- To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with peace and plenty.“The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest” Deuteronomy 14:29
- To make happy in a future life.“BLESSed are the dead who die in the Lord” Revelation 14:13
- To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.“And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it” Genesis 2:3
All definitions
- To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.“And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them” Luke 9:16
- To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.“BLESS the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me” Psalms 103:1
- To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psalms 104:1
- To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.“The nations shall bless themselves in him” Jeremiah 4:2
- To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. 7. Genesis 2:3Deuteronomy 33:11
- In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.