STRONGS NUMBER H835


Word Summary
esher: happiness, blessedness
Original Word: אֶשֶׁר
Transliteration: esher
Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-sher)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: happiness, blessedness
Meaning: happiness, interjection, how happy!
Strong's Concordance
blessed, happy

From 'ashar; happiness; only in masculine plural construction as interjection, how happy! -- blessed, happy.

see HEBREW 'ashar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H835. esher

[אֶ֫שֶׁר‎, or אָשָׁר‎, compare LagBN 143]

noun [masculine] only Plural construct אַשְׁרֵיhappiness, blessedness of 1 Kings 10:8 32t. and with suffix, see below; abstract intensive exclamation O happiness, blessedness of, אֵלֶּה עֲבָדֶיךָ אַשְׁרֵי אֲנָשֶׁיךָ אַשְׁרֵיhappy thy men, happy these thy servants; 10:8 (= 2 Chronicles 9:7); אֱלוֺהַּ יוֺכִיחֶנּוּ אֱנוֺשׁ אַשְׁרֵיblessed the man whom Eloah correcteth Job 5:17; דֶרֶךְ תְמִימֵי אַשְׁרֵיblessed the perfect in way Psalm 119:1; אַחֲרָיו בָנָיו אַשְׁרֵיblessed his children after him Proverbs 20:7; elsewhere construct with אָדָםPsalm 32:2; 84:6; Psalm 84:13; Proverbs 3:13; 8:34; 28:14; with הַגֶּבֶרPsalm 34:9; 40:5; 94:12; 127:5; (הָ)אִישׁ1:1; 112:1; אֱנוֺשׁIsaiah 56:2; הַגּוֺיPsalm 33:12; הָעָם89:16; 144:15 (twice in verse); before participle 2:12; 32:1; 41:2; 84:5; 106:3; 119:2; 128:1; Isaiah 30:18; Daniel 12:12; before verbal clauses without relative Psalm 65:5; Proverbs 8:32; with שֶֿׁPsalm 137:8; 137:9; 146:5; with suffix אַשְׁרֶיךָ‎ (for אֲשָׁרֶיךָ‎) O thy happiness ! Deuteronomy 33:29; Psalm 128:2; אַשְׁרֵיךְEcclesiastes 10:17; אַשְׁרֵיכֶסIsaiah 32:20; אַשְׁרָיוProverbs 14:21; 16:20; אַשְׁרֵהוּ29:18 (on these forms see Ges§ 93, R. 1, E).