Asaph ( he, אָסָף ''’Āsāp̄'', "Gather"
[A concise English-Hebrew Dictionary'' by H. Danby and M. H. Segal, Dvir Publishing, Tel Aviv, 1962]) is the name of three men from the Hebrew bible. The articles related to the son of Berachiah and descendant of Kohath refer to the same person.
* Asaph, the father of
Joah ()
* Asaph, son of
Berachiah
Berechiah is a Jewish name that occurs several times in the Bible. It is derived from Berakhah, "blessing".
People named Berechiah
In scripture
* the father of the Hebrew prophet Zechariah (Hebrew prophet), Zechariah and son of Iddo (prophet), ...
the
Gershonite ()
Together with Heman, the grandson of the Israelite prophet Samuel (, or 1 Chronicles 6:39 in non-Hebrew translations), he and his male descendants were set aside by King David to worship God in song and music (). He authored
Psalm 50
Psalm 50, a Psalm of Asaph, is the 50th psalm from the Book of Psalms in the Bible, beginning in English in the King James Version: "The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down ...
, and
Psalms 73 to
83.
* Asaph, a Levite descendant of
Kohath ()
* Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest under the Persian king
Artaxerxes I Longimanus
Artaxerxes I (, peo, 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 ; grc-gre, Ἀρταξέρξης) was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to December 424 BC. He was the third son of Xerxes I.
He may have been the "Artasyr ...
()
See also
*
Psalms of Asaph
*
Psalms
References
Set index articles on Hebrew Bible people
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