623. Asaph
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Asaph: "gatherer," the name of several Israelites
Original Word: אָסָף
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Asaph
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-sawf')
Short Definition: Asaph

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from asaph
Definition
"gatherer," the name of several Isr.
NASB Translation
Asaph (34).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
אָסָף proper name, masculine (gatherer, compare Phoenician proper name, feminine אספת)

1 father of יוֺאָח the recorder 2 Kings 18:18,37 = Isaiah 36:3,22.

2 one of David's chief musicians, a Levite, son of Berechiah 1 Chronicles 6:24 (twice in verse) ("" הֵימָן v.1 Chronicles 6:18, אֵיתָן v.1 Chronicles 6:29 see these names); 1 Chronicles 15:17 ("" Heman & Ethan, all called) הַמְּשֹׁרֲרִים 1 Chronicles 15:19; see also 1 Chronicles 16:5 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 16:7 compare 1 Chronicles 16:37 ("" Heman & Jeduthun 1 Chronicles 16:41; 1 Chronicles 16:42); 1 Chronicles 25:9, named with Heman & Jeduthun also 1 Chronicles 25:6; 2Chronicles 5:12; 35:15; Psalm 50:1; Psalm 73:1-83:18 are ascribed to Asaph; compare also בִּימֵי דָוִיד וְאָסָף Nehemiah 12:46; he is called also הַחֹזֶה2Chronicles 29:30, compare אָסָף הַנִּבָּא עַליְֿדֵיהַמֶּלֶךְ 1 Chronicles 25:2; repeated mention is made also of sons of Asaph בְּנֵיאָֿסָף, sons, descendants, and pupils, or those who sang and played after his manner 1 Chronicles 25:1 ("" Heman & Jeduthun) 1 Chronicles 25:2; 1 Chronicles 25:2; called הַמְּשֹׁרֲרִים2Chronicles 35:15; Ezra 2:41; Nehemiah 7:44; Nehemiah 11:22, compare Ezra 3:10; performing service of purification, Hezekiah's time 2Chronicles 29:13; one of them prophesying 2 Chronicles 20:14; — 1 Chronicles 26:1 for בְּנֵי אָסָף read בְּנֵי אֶבְיָסָף, compare 1 Chronicles 9:19; on זִכְרִי 1 Chronicles 9:15, זַבְדִּי Nehemiah 11:17, זַכּוּרNehemiah 12:35, called בֶּןאָֿסָף, see these names.

3 keeper of king's park Nehemiah 2:8.



Strong's
Asaph

From 'acaph; collector; Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and of the family of the first -- Asaph.

see HEBREW 'acaph

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