Scholarly Interpretations
A number of scholars have proposed that the tribe of Asher actually originated as the Weshesh group of Sea Peoples - the name Weshesh (or rather Uashesh/Ueshesh - for easy pronunciation, this is usually transcribed into English as Weshesh) can be decomposed as men of Uash in Hebrew, and hence possibly a corruption of Asher.
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