What does 'ashre' mean?

[Modeps]

In Tori Amos' song "Muhammed My Friend", there's a line where she repeats the word "ashre" over and over... what's it mean?

Full Lyrics:

Muhammed my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl back in Bethlehem
and on that fateful day
when she was crucified
she wore Shiseido Red and we drank tea
by her side
sweet sweet
used to be so sweet to me

Muhammed my friend
I'm getting very scared
teach me how to love my brothers
who don't know the law
and what about the deal on that flying
trapeeze got a peanut butter hand
but honey do drop in at the
Dew Drop Inn
sweet sweet
between the bots and the bees

and Moses I know
I know you've seen fire
but you've never seen fire
until you've seen Pele blow
and I've never seen light
but I sure have seen gold
and Gladys save a place for me
on your grapevine
till I get my own TV show

ashre ashre ashre ashre
and if I lose my Cracker Jacks at the
tidal wave I got a place
in the Pope's rubber robe
Muhammed my friend
it's time to tell the world
we both know it was a girl
back in Bethlehem

 

[vi edit]

http://www.jewishencyclopedia....rtid=2002&letter=A

 

[Mermaidman]

Kim Jong Il: "Ashre Simpson is hot!"

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
Kim Jong Il: "Ashre Simpson is hot!"

That'd be funnier if it was pronounced that way.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
http://www.jewishencyclopedia....rtid=2002&letter=A

I wish that meant something to me, care to explain it in a layman's way?

 

[shenaniganz]

American Society of Heating and Refrigration Engineers???

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: vi_edit
http://www.jewishencyclopedia....rtid=2002&letter=A

I wish that meant something to me, care to explain it in a layman's way?

Oh, you mean you just googled for it and couldnt tell me what it means in lay terms? I would never have guessed.

 

[ThePresence]

There is a Hebrew word pronounced "Ash-ray" (or Osh-Ray) which means "praised".

 

[asm0deus]

Eheieh Asher Eheieh (I Will Be What I Will Be) the name of god given to moses, also represented as YHVH (Yahveh)

its also a place and a name

 

[phatj]

my name is asher lev

 

[asm0deus]

A Syrian Goddess named Asherah is mentioned also

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: asm0deus
Eheieh Asher Eheieh (I Will Be What I Will Be) the name of god given to moses, also represented as YHVH (Yahveh)

its also a place and a name

That word is "Asher". Ashrey is an unrelated word. Different root, different meaning.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: phatj
my name is asher lev

Chaim Potok was a good author.

 

[phatj]

I LOVED that novel by Chaim Potok. He has much talent.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: phatj
I LOVED that novel by Chaim Potok. He has much talent.

I've read The Chosen and The Promise and both were excellent.

 

[jdobratz]

Try the following url, it has a decent descruption. http://www.incommunion.org/Blessed1.htm

 

[phatj]

I'll have to read The Chosen and The Promise, then. Thanks mwtff.