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== | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49615" /> == | ||
<p> 1. | <p> <strong> ASAPH </strong> (‘gatherer’). <strong> 1 </strong> . The father of Joah, the ‘recorder’ or chronicler at the court of [[Hezekiah]] ( 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37 etc.). <strong> 2 </strong> . The ‘keeper of the king’s forest,’ to whom king [[Artaxerxes]] addressed a letter directing him to supply Nehemiah with timber ( Nehemiah 2:8 ). <strong> 3 </strong> . A [[Korahite]] ( 1 Chronicles 26:1 ), same as <strong> [[Abiasaph]] </strong> (wh. see). <strong> 4 </strong> . The eponym of one of the three guilds which conducted the musical services of the [[Temple]] in the time of the Chronicler ( 1 Chronicles 15:16 f., etc.). The latter traces this arrangement to the appointment of David, in whose reign Asaph, who is called ‘the seer’ ( 2 Chronicles 29:30 ), is supposed to have lived. At first the Asaphites alone seemed to have formed the Temple choir, and in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah (wherever we have the memoirs of the latter in their original form) they are not yet reckoned among the <em> [[Levites]] </em> . At a later period they share the musical service with the ‘sons of Korah’ (see Korahites). Psalms 50:1-23; Psalms 73:1-28; Psalms 74:1-23; Psalms 75:1-10; Psalms 76:1-12; Psalms 77:1-20; Psalms 78:1-72; Psalms 79:1-13; Psalms 80:1-19; Psalms 81:1-16; Psalms 82:1-8; Psalms 83:1-18 have the superscription <em> le-Asaph </em> , which means in all probability that they once belonged to the hymn-book of the Asaphite choir (see Psalms). </p> | ||
== People's Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_69571" /> == | |||
<p> [[Asaph]] (â'saf), collector. 1. The father of Joan, recorder to King Hezekiah. 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 22:2. A [[Levite]] musician, one of the leaders of the singers in the reign of David. 1 Chronicles 6:39. He is called a "seer," and is said to have composed several of the Psalms; of which 50, 73, 83 are in the titles attributed to him; several of these must, however, be of later date than the times of David. His descendants, or a school of musicians founded by him, are called sons of Asaph; and some of these returned from captivity with Zerubbabel. Ezra 2:41; Nehemiah 7:44. We often find Asaph spoken of in later ages with distinction. 2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46. 3. The keeper of the king's forest to Artaxerxes. Nehemiah 2:8. 4. A Levite. Nehemiah 11:17. </p> | |||
== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_71457" /> == | |||
<p> A'saph. (collector of the people). </p> <p> 1. A Levite, son of Berechiah, one of the leaders of David's choir. 1 Chronicles 6:39. Psalms 50 and 73-83 are attributed to him; and he was, in after times, celebrated as a seer as well as a musical composer. 2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46. (B.C. 1050). </p> <p> 2. The father or ancestor of Joah, the chronicler to the kingdom of [[Judah]] in the reign of Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 36:22, probably the same as Asaph, 1. </p> <p> 3. The keeper of the royal forest or "paradise" of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah 2:8, a Jew, in high office at the court of Persia. (B.C. 536). </p> <p> 4. Ancestor of Mattaniah, the conductor of the Temple-choir after the return from Babylon. 1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 11:17. Most probably the same as Asaph, 1 and 2. </p> | |||
== | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_65018" /> == | ||
< | <p> 1. A leader of the choir in David's time, and once called a 'seer.' 2 Chronicles 29:30 . He was descended from [[Gershom]] the Levite. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 15:17,19; 1 Chronicles 16:5,7,37 , etc. Twelve psalms are attributed to him, namely, 50,73 to 83. His office seems to have been hereditary. Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 7:44 , etc. </p> <p> 2. Father of [[Joah]] recorder to Hezekiah. 2 Kings 18:18,37; Isaiah 36:3,22 . </p> <p> 3. A Levite, whose descendants dwelt in [[Jerusalem]] after the exile. 1 Chronicles 9:15 . </p> <p> 4. A Korhite, whose posterity were porters in the tabernacle in the time of David. 1 Chronicles 26:1 . </p> <p> 5. An officer, probably a Jew, controller of the forests of king [[Artaxerxes]] in Judaea. Nehemiah 2:8 . </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34423" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_34423" /> == | ||
<p> ("assembler".) </p> <p> 1. A Levite, son of Berachiah; one of David's choir leaders (1 Chronicles 6:39). An inspired seer, as well as a composer of music (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46). "The sons of Asaph" were poets and musical composers of the school founded by him; as [[Heman]] and [[Jeduthun]] also were heads of schools of sacred inspired music. 1 Chronicles 25:1; 2 Chronicles 20:14; Ezra 2:41; [[Psalm]] 50; 73; 83, are all attributed to his authorship; but 83, celebrates the victory of [[Jehoshaphat]] long after Asaph's time, therefore "Asaph" in this psalm's title must mean "one of the school of Asaph." </p> <p> 2. 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37. </p> <p> 3. Nehemiah 2:8. </p> <p> 4. Nehemiah 11:17. </p> | <p> ("assembler".) </p> <p> 1. A Levite, son of Berachiah; one of David's choir leaders (1 Chronicles 6:39). An inspired seer, as well as a composer of music (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46). "The sons of Asaph" were poets and musical composers of the school founded by him; as [[Heman]] and [[Jeduthun]] also were heads of schools of sacred inspired music. 1 Chronicles 25:1; 2 Chronicles 20:14; Ezra 2:41; [[Psalm]] 50; 73; 83, are all attributed to his authorship; but 83, celebrates the victory of [[Jehoshaphat]] long after Asaph's time, therefore "Asaph" in this psalm's title must mean "one of the school of Asaph." </p> <p> 2. 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37. </p> <p> 3. Nehemiah 2:8. </p> <p> 4. Nehemiah 11:17. </p> | ||
== Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary <ref name="term_80204" /> == | |||
<p> a celebrated musician in the time of David, was the son of [[Barachias]] of the tribe of Levi. Asaph, and also his descendants, presided over the musical band in the service of the temple. [[Several]] of the psalms, as the fiftieth, the seventy-third to the eighty-third, have the name of [[Asaph]] prefixed; but it is not certain whether the words or the music were composed by him. With regard to some of them, which were written during the [[Babylonish]] captivity, they cannot in any respect be ascribed to him. Perhaps they were written or set to music by his descendants, who bore his name, or by some of that class of musicians of which the family of Asaph was the head, 1 Chronicles 6:39; 2 Chronicles 29:30; 2 Chronicles 35:15; Nehemiah 12:46 . The psalms which bear the name of Asaph are doctrinal or preceptive: their style, though less sweet than that of David, is more vehement, and little inferior to the grandeur of Isaiah. </p> | |||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15473" /> == | |||
<p> 1. Assembler, a celebrated musician in David's time, and one of the leaders of the temple music. 1 Chronicles 16:5 25:1,2 . This service appears to have been hereditary in his family, Nehemiah 7:44 11:22 . He is also called a seer, 2 Chronicles 29:30; and his name is prefixed to twelve Psalms, ( [[Psalm]] 50:1-23 73:1-83:18 ) but whether they were written by him, or for him or his family to sing, is unknown. See [[Music]] . </p> <p> 2. A recorder of King Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:18 Isaiah 36:3 </p> <p> 3. [[Keeper]] of forests under Artaxerxes, Nehemiah 2:8 . </p> | |||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38606" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_38606" /> == | ||
2 Kings 18:121 Chronicles 6:391 Chronicles 9:151 Chronicles 15:191 Chronicles 16:71 Chronicles 16:371 Chronicles 25:1-72 Chronicles 20:14-192 Chronicles 29:30Psalm 50:1Psalm 73-83 [[Psalm]] 73-83 | 2 Kings 18:121 Chronicles 6:391 Chronicles 9:151 Chronicles 15:191 Chronicles 16:71 Chronicles 16:371 Chronicles 25:1-72 Chronicles 20:14-192 Chronicles 29:30Psalm 50:1Psalm 73-83 [[Psalm]] 73-83 | ||
== | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_30301" /> == | ||
<li> The "keeper of the king's forest," to whom Nehemiah requested from [[Artaxerxes]] a "letter" that he might give him timber for the temple at [[Jerusalem]] (Nehemiah 2:8 ). <div> <p> [[Copyright]] StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated [[Bible]] Dictionary, Third Edition, published by [[Thomas]] Nelson, 1897. Public Domain. </p> <p> Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Asaph'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/a/asaph.html. 1897. </p> </div> </li> | |||
== | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_21496" /> == | ||
<p | <p> (Heb. Asaph', אָסָ Š, assembler; Sept. Ἀσάφ ), the names of three persons. (See [[Ebiasaph]]). </p> <p> 1. A [[Levite]] of the family of [[Gershom]] (see below), son of [[Barachiah]] (1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 15:17), eminent as a musician, and appointed by [[David]] to preside over the sacred choral services which he organized (1 Chronicles 16:5), B.C. 1014. The "sons of Asaph" are afterward mentioned as choristers. of the [[Temple]] (1 Chronicles 25:1-2; 2 Chronicles 20:14; 2 Chronicles 29:13; Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 7:44; Nehemiah 11:22); and this office appears to have been made hereditary in his family (1 Chronicles 25:1-2). [[Asaph]] was celebrated in after times as a prophet (הֹזֶה, seer) and poet (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46), and the titles of twelve of the Psalms (50, 73, to 83) bear his name, in some of which he evidently stands (as a patronymic, Nehemiah 11:17) for the [[Levites]] generally (see Huetii Demonstr. ev. p. 332; Bertholdt, v, 1956; Herder, Ebr. Poesie, ii, 331; comp. Niemeyer, Charakterist. 4:356 sq.; Carpzov, Introd. 103 sq.; Eichhorn, Einl. v, 17 sq.); or he may have been the founder of a school of poets and musical composers, who were called after him " the sons of Asaph" (comp. the Homeridae). (See [[Psalms]]). The following is his ancestry (see Reinhard, [[De]] Asapho, Vien. 1742). </p> <table> <tr> <td> <p> Name </p> </td> <td> <p> 1 Chronicles 6 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1 Chronicles 6 </p> </td> <td> <p> Born, cir. B.C. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Levi]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 1 </p> </td> <td> <p> 16 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1917 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Gershom </p> </td> <td> <p> 20 </p> </td> <td> <p> 43 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1860? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Libni]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 20 </p> </td> <td> <p> 17 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1805? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Jahath]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 20 </p> </td> <td> <p> 43 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1750? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Shimei]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 42 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1695? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Zimmah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 20 </p> </td> <td> <p> 42 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1640? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Joah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 21 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> or [[Ethan]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 42 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1585? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Adaiah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 41 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> or [[Iddo]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 21 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1530? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Zerah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 21 </p> </td> <td> <p> 41 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1475? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Ethni]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 41 </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> or [[Jeaterai]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 21 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1420? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Malchiah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 40 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1365? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Baaseiah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 40 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1310? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Michael]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 40 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1255? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Shimea]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 39 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1200? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> [[Berachiah]] </p> </td> <td> <p> 39 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1145? </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p> Asaph </p> </td> <td> <p> 39 </p> </td> <td> <p> 1090? </p> </td> </tr> </table> <p> 2. The "father" of Joah, which latter was "recorder" in the time of [[Hezekiah]] (2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 36:22). B.C. ante 726. Perhaps i. q. No. 1. 3. A "keeper of the king's forests" (prob. in Lebanon), to whom Nehemiah requested of [[Artaxerxes]] Longimanus an order for timber to rebuild the Temple at [[Jerusalem]] (Nehemiah 2:8). B.C. 446. </p> | ||
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== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1267" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_1267" /> == | ||
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== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15004" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_15004" /> == | ||
<p> A´saph (assembler), a Levite, son of [[Barachias]] (1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 15:17), eminent as a musician, and appointed by [[David]] to preside over the sacred choral services which he organized. The 'sons of Asaph' are afterwards mentioned as choristers of the temple (1 Chronicles 25:1-2; 2 Chronicles 20:14; 2 Chronicles 29:13; Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 7:44; Nehemiah 11:22): and this office appears to have been made hereditary in his family (1 Chronicles 25:1-2). [[Asaph]] was celebrated in after times as a prophet and poet (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46), and the titles of twelve of the Psalms (Psalms 73-83) bear his name. The merits of this appropriation are elsewhere examined [PSALMS, BOOK OF]. </p> <p> There were two other persons named Asaph: one who occupied the distinguished post of 'recorder' to king [[Hezekiah]] (2 Kings 18:18; Isaiah 36:3); another who was keeper of the royal forests under [[Artaxerxes]] (Nehemiah 2:8). </p> | <p> A´saph (assembler), a Levite, son of [[Barachias]] (1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 15:17), eminent as a musician, and appointed by [[David]] to preside over the sacred choral services which he organized. The 'sons of Asaph' are afterwards mentioned as choristers of the temple (1 Chronicles 25:1-2; 2 Chronicles 20:14; 2 Chronicles 29:13; Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 7:44; Nehemiah 11:22): and this office appears to have been made hereditary in his family (1 Chronicles 25:1-2). [[Asaph]] was celebrated in after times as a prophet and poet (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46), and the titles of twelve of the Psalms (Psalms 73-83) bear his name. The merits of this appropriation are elsewhere examined [PSALMS, BOOK OF]. </p> <p> There were two other persons named Asaph: one who occupied the distinguished post of 'recorder' to king [[Hezekiah]] (2 Kings 18:18; Isaiah 36:3); another who was keeper of the royal forests under [[Artaxerxes]] (Nehemiah 2:8). </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_68264" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_68264" /> == | ||
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