Asaph אָסַף

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Asaph
אָסַף
Transliterationasaph
Strong's numberH622
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto gather
Occurrences200 in 187 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (16)

Asaph (Hebrew אָסַף, Strong's H622) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to gather”. It occurs 200 times in 187 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to gather, receive, remove, gather in
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to gather, collect
1a2) to gather (an individual into company of others)
1a3) to bring up the rear
1a4) to gather and take away, remove, withdraw
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to assemble, be gathered
1b2) (pass of Qal 1a2)
1b2a) to be gathered to one's fathers
1b2b) to be brought in or into (association with others)
1b3) (pass of Qal 1a4)
1b3a) to be taken away, removed, perish
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to gather (harvest)
1c2) to take in, receive into
1c3) rearguard, rearward (subst)
1d) (Pual) to be gathered
1e) (Hithpael) to gather oneself or themselves

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVgathered (56), together (52), gather (32), away (9), assemble (9), rereward (5), assembled (5), up (4), gathereth (4), withdraw (4), recover (4), brought (2), and 17 other renderings
BSBgathered (18), gather (16), assembled (9), assemble (6), was gathered (4), he gathered (4), gathered together (4), will be gathered (3), be gathered (3), you will be gathered (3), i will gather (3), after you have gathered (2), and 104 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Asaph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Leviticus

Numbers

Deuteronomy

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Nehemiah

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Micah

Habakkuk

Zephaniah

Zechariah

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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