Strong's Hebrew: 609. אָסָא (Asa) -- perhaps "healer," an Israelite name

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Lexicon

Asa: perhaps "healer," an Israelite name

Original Word: אָסָא
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Asa
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-saw')
Short Definition: Asa

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from an unused word
Definition
perhaps "healer," an Isr. name
NASB Translation
Asa (54), Asa's (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אָסָא proper name, masculine (perhaps healer) king of Judah, son of Abijam and father of Jehoshaphat 1 Kings 15:8,9,11 24t. 1Kings 15..16.22; 1 Chronicles 3:10; 1 Chronicles 9:16; 2Chron 13:23 28t. 14-21; Jeremiah 41:9. **Perhaps apocopatic theophoric name, compare רְפָאֵל.

II. אסה (compare Arabic be sorrowful, distressed).

Strong's

Asa

Of uncertain derivation; Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite -- Asa.