STRONGS NUMBER H623


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

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

see HEBREW 'acaph

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H623. Asaph

אָסָףproper 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.6:18, אֵיתָן‎ v.6:29 see these names); 15:17 ("" Heman & Ethan, all called) הַמְּשֹׁרֲרִים15:19; see also 16:5 (twice in verse); 16:7 compare 16:37 ("" Heman & Jeduthun 16:41; 16:42); 25:9, named with Heman & Jeduthun also 25:6; 2 Chronicles 5:12; 35:15; Psalm 50:1; Psalm 73:1-83:18 are ascribed to Asaph; compare also וְאָסָף דָוִיד בִּימֵיNehemiah 12:46; he is called also הַחֹזֶה2 Chronicles 29:30, compare עַליְֿדֵיהַמֶּלֶךְ הַנִּבָּא אָסָף1 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 25:1 ("" Heman & Jeduthun) 25:2; 25:2; called הַמְּשֹׁרֲרִים2 Chronicles 35:15; Ezra 2:41; Nehemiah 7:44; 11:22, compare Ezra 3:10; performing service of purification, Hezekiah's time 2 Chronicles 29:13; one of them prophesying 20:14; — 1 Chronicles 26:1 for אָסָף בְּנֵי‎ read אֶבְיָסָף בְּנֵי‎, compare 9:19; on זִכְרִי9:15, זַבְדִּיNehemiah 11:17, זַכּוּר12:35, called בֶּןאָֿסָף‎, see these names.

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