Asher = "happy"

1. son of Jacob and Zilpah

2. the tribe descended from Asher

3. a city east of Shechem in Manasseh

Benjamin = "son of the right hand"

1. Jacob's and Rachel's youngest son, Joseph's full brother

2. son of Bilhan, great-grandson of Benjamin

3. a Benjamite, one of the sons of Harim, in the time of Ezra who had taken a strange wife

4. the tribe descended from Benjamin, the son of Jacob

Gad = "troop"

1. seventh son of Jacob by Zilpah, Leah's handmaid, and full brother of Asher.

2. the tribe descended from Gad

3. a prophet during the time of David; appears to have joined David when in the hold; reappears in connection with the punishment for taking a census; also assisted in the arrangements for the musical service of the "house of God"

Dan = "a judge"

1. the 5th son of Jacob, the 1st of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid

2. the tribe descended from Dan, the son of Jacob

   proper locative noun

3. a city in Dan, the most northern landmark of Palestine

Joseph = "Jehovah has added"

1. the eldest son of Jacob by Rachel

2. father of Igal, who represented the tribe of Issachar among the spies

3. a son of Asaph

4. a man who took a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

5. a priest of the family of Shebaniah in the time of Nehemiah

Naphtali = "wrestling"

1. the 6th son of Jacob and the 2nd by Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel

2. the tribe descended from Naphtali the son of Jacob

   n pr loc

3. the territory assigned to the tribe of Naphtali