Assign

Webster's Dictionary

(v. i.) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

a - sı̄n ( נתן , nāthan , "to give," or "grant," i.e. apportion): Used ( Joshua 20:8 ) of Moses setting apart Bezer as one of the three cities of refuge on the East of the Jordan (compare  Deuteronomy 4:41-43 ); also of Joab's stationing Uriah in a place of mortal peril in battle ( 2 Samuel 11:16 ).