Asher

happy, Jacob's eigth son; his mother was Zilpah, Leah's handmaid (Gen 30:13 ). Of the tribe founded by him nothing is recorded beyond its holding a place in the list of the tribes (Gen 35:26 ; 46:17; Ex 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 ). 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; Judg 1:31; 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).

EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary