Asuppim

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("gathering".) Margin  1 Chronicles 26:15;  1 Chronicles 26:17. Not a proper name. From Asaph , to "gather." The house of stores, where were kept the grain, wine, and other offerings for the sustenance of the priests. Near the S. door of the temple in the outer court; it had. two entrances, for  1 Chronicles 26:19 states that two guard stations were assigned to it. In  Nehemiah 12:25 the same Hebrew is translated "thresholds," margin "treasuries," "assemblies."

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Asup'pim.  1 Chronicles 26:15;  1 Chronicles 26:17. Literally, House Of The Gatherings. Some understand it as the proper name of chambers on the south of the Temple; others, of certain store-rooms; or of the council chambers in the outer court of the Temple in which the elders held their celebrations.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

In  1 Chronicles 26:15,17 the Hebrew word is given untranslated; but the same occurs in   Nehemiah 12:25 , where it is translated 'thresholds,' and in the margin 'treasuries.' It probably refers to the apartments used as storehouses in the outer temple.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Asuppim .   1 Chronicles 26:15;   1 Chronicles 26:17 AV [Note: Authorized Version.]; RV [Note: Revised Version.] correctly ‘storehouse.’

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

a word which signifies gatherings, and the name of the treasury of the temple of Jerusalem,  1 Chronicles 26:15 .

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

Collections. The "house of Asuppim" was probably a storehouse in connection with the temple,  1 Chronicles 26:15 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 26:15,17 Nehemiah 12:25

Holman Bible Dictionary

 1 Chronicles 26:17

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Asuppim', אֲסֻפַּים , - Collections; Sept. Ἀσαφείν v. r . Ε᾿Σεφίμ ) , a part of the Temple, to which two of the Levites of the family of Obed- edom were assigned as guards ( 1 Chronicles 26:15;  1 Chronicles 26:17). They were apparently the two northernmost gates in the western outer wall of the Temple, the space between them being inclosed for Store-Chambers, by the name of the "house of Asuppim" (see Strong's Harmony And Exposition Of The Gospels, Appendix 2, p. 30). In the reference to the same building, as restored after the captivity ( Nehemiah 12:25), the term is falsely rendered "Thresholds" ( בִּאֲסֻפֵּי הִשְּׁעָרַים , in the store-houses of the gates, Sept. Πυλωροὶ Φυλακῆς ) . (See Temple).