Asaph

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeɪ.sæf/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hebrew אָסַף (’Āsāp̄); meaning "Gathered by God".

Proper noun

Asaph

  1. A biblical figure associated with music.
  2. An alternative name for the Judean king Asa that gospel writer St. Matthew used.
  3. An early Welsh bishop and saint.
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Etymology 2

Proper noun

Asaph

  1. Obsolete spelling of Azov.
    • 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of Armenia Maior, and Georgia: and the neighbouring Nations.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book IV (Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tartarians, Chinois, and of Their Religions), page 292:
      at the mouth of Tanais, the Turke hath fortified Aſaph.

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