ashar · call happy; walk straight

What it means

ashar (אָשַׁר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “call happy; walk straight”.

Call someone happy, congratulate them. Elsewhere, walk straight, go forward, lead.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To follow a straight road without turning aside.
2. To lead others along a road, for good or ill; to set them right.
3. To declare someone happy because things go well for them.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• those who guide ×2
• walk ×2
• are happy ×1
• call happy ×1
• call her happy ×1
• call him happy ×1
• called her happy ×1
• called me happy ×1
• direct ×1
• he will be called happy ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×5
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Malachi×2

• Genesis 30:13

  Leah said, “Happy am I! For the daughters will call me happy.” So she called his name Asher.

• Job 29:11

  For the ear heard and called me happy, and the eye saw and bore witness to me,

• Psalms 41:2

  YHWH will keep him and give him life, and he will be called happy in the land; and do not give him over to the desire of his enemies.

• Psalms 72:17

  May his name endure forever; before the sun may his name continue; and may they bless themselves in him; may all nations call him happy.

• Proverbs 3:18

  She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and those who hold her fast are happy.

• Proverbs 4:14

  Into the path of the wicked do not enter, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

• Proverbs 9:6

  Leave simpleness, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.”

• Proverbs 23:19

  Hear, you, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.

• Proverbs 31:28

  Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband does too, and he praises her:

• Song of Songs 6:9

  Unique is she, my dove, my perfect one, unique is she to her mother, pure is she to the one who bore her. The girls saw her and called her happy, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

• Isaiah 1:17

  Learn to do good; seek justice; set right the oppressor; judge the case of the orphan; plead the cause of the widow.

• Isaiah 3:12

  My people — its oppressors are children, and women rule over it. My people, those who guide you lead you astray, and the way of your paths they have swallowed up.

• Isaiah 9:16

  And those who guide this people have been leading it astray, and those guided by them are swallowed up.

• Malachi 3:12

  And all the nations will call you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says YHWH Tsevaot.

• Malachi 3:15

  And now we call happy the insolent; also those who do wickedness are built up; also they test Elohim and escape.”

And 1 more times.