Asaph ( ; ''’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.
* Asaph, the father of
Joah ()
* The articles related to the son of Berachiah and descendant of Kohath refer to the same person:
** Asaph, son of
Berachiah the
Gershonite
The Gershonites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. The Bible claims that the Gershonites were all descended from the eponymous ''Gershon'' a son of Levi (not to be confused with Moses' son Gershom), although so ...
(). Together with Heman, the grandson of the Israelite prophet
Samuel
Samuel is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venera ...
(, or 1 Chronicles 6:39 in non-Hebrew translations), he and his male descendants were set aside by King
David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
to worship God in song and music (). He authored
Psalm 50, and
Psalms 73 to
83.
** Asaph, a Levite descendant of
Kohath
According to the Torah, Kehath (, ''Qəhāṯ'') or Kohath was the second of the sons of Levi and the patriarchal founder of the Kehathites, one of the four main divisions of the Levites in biblical times. In some apocryphal texts, such as the '' ...
()
* Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest under the Persian king
Artaxerxes I Longimanus ()
See also
*
Psalms of Asaph
*
Psalms
The Book of Psalms ( , ; ; ; ; , in Islam also called Zabur, ), also known as the Psalter, is the first book of the third section of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) called ('Writings'), and a book of the Old Testament.
The book is an anthology of B ...
*
Asif ibn Barkhiya
References
Set index articles on Hebrew Bible people
category: Book of Nehemiah people
Psalms people
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