Topic: Persons Of The Bible -- Asaph

The name "Asaph" means "collector" in Hebrew. The name also means "convener or collector of the people."

A person named "Asaph", son of Berechiah, a Levite; was one of the leaders of David's choir (1 Chr. 6:39). Psalms 50 and 73-83 inclusive are attributed to him. This Asaph is mentioned along with David as skilled in music, he was, in after times, celebrated as a "seer" as well as a musical composer. (2 Chr. 29:30). The "sons of Asaph," mentioned in 1 Chr. 25:1, 2 Chr. 20:14, and Ezra 2:41, were his descendants, or more probably a class of poets or singers who recognized him as their master.

A person named "Asaph", the father or ancestor of Joah, was the chronicler or "recorder" in the kingdom of Judah in the reign of Hezekiah, (2 Kings 18:18,37; Isaiah 36:3,22)

A person named "Asaph", a Jew, was the "keeper of the king's forest or 'paradise' of Artaxerxes," to whom Nehemiah requested from Artaxerxes a "letter" that he might give him timber for the temple at Jerusalem (Neh. 2:8). This Asaph was in high office at the court of Persia. (B.C. 536.)

Derived from Easton's and Smith's Bible Dictionaries

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