Strong's Concordance Asaph: Asa, a king of Judah Original Word: Ἀσά, ὁPart of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Asaph Phonetic Spelling: (as-ah') Short Definition: Asa Definition: Asa, son of Abijah and father of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah about 900 B.C. for 41 years. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 760: ΑσαΑσα (Chaldean אֲסָא, to cure), Asa, king of Judah, son of king Abijah (1 Kings 15:8ff): Matthew 1:7f. (L T Tr WH read Ἀσάφ which see.) STRONGS NT 760a: ἀσαίνωἀσαίνω: in 1 Thessalonians 3:3, Kuenen and Cobet (in their N. T. ad fidem manuscript Vat., Lugd. 1860 (pref., p. xc.)), following Lachmann (who followed Valckenaer in following J. J. Reiske (Animad. ad Polybius, p. 68); see Valck. Opuscc. ii. 246-249) in his larger edit., conjectured and received into their text μηδέν ἀσαίνεσθαι, which they think to be equivalent to ά᾿χθεσθαι, χαλεπως φέρειν. But there is no necessity for changing the Rec. (see σαίνω, 2 b. β.), nor can it be shown that ἀσαίνω is used by Greek writings for ἀσάω. Of Hebrew origin ('Aca'); Asa, an Israelite -- Asa. see HEBREW 'Aca' Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 7602 Occurrences Ἀσάφ — 2 Occ. Matthew 1:7 N GRK: ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἀσάφ NAS: and Abijah the father of Asa. KJV: Abia begat Asa; INT: was father of Asa Matthew 1:8 N |