Asher vs Aster - What's the difference?
asher | aster |
(biblical) Eighth son of Jacob, by his wife's handmaid Zilpah.
(biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Asher.
(obsolete) A star.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.94:
Any of several plants of the genus Aster ; one of its flowers.
* 1969 , (Vladimir Nabokov), , Penguin 2011, p.120:
(biology) A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
As nouns the difference between asher and aster
is that asher is amadou, touchwood, tinder or asher can be hard part (on the back side of a horse hoof) while aster is (l).asher
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* 1611 , 35:22b-26 *: Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher : these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram. * 1611 , 21:30 *: And out of the tribe of Asher , Mishal with her suburbs Abdon ith her suburbs,See also
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Noun
(en noun)- by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters and planets are caused and transported.
- On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.