John Gill Commentary Genesis 30:13

"And Leah said, Happy am I! for the daughters will call me happy: and she called his name Asher." — Genesis 30:13 (ASV)

And Leah said Upon the birth of the second son by her maid: happy am I or, "in my happiness"; or, "for my happiness" ^F3 ; that is, this child is an addition to my happiness, and will serve to increase it: for the daughters will call me blessed; the women of the place where she lived would speak of her as a happy person, that had so many children of her own, and others by her maid; see (Psalms 127:5) : and she called his name Asher , which signifies "happy" or "blessed". These two sons of Zilpah, according to the Jewish writers ^F4 , were born, Gad on the tenth day of Marchesvan or October, and lived one hundred and twenty five years; and Asher on the twenty second day of Shebet or January, and lived one hundred and twenty three years.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F3: (yrvab) "in felicitate mea", Montanus; "ob beatitatem meam", Drusius; "hoc pro beatitudine men", V. L. "pro beatitudine mihi est", Schmidt.
• F4: Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 4. 1.