Ἀσά

From Biblical Hebrew אָסָא (ʾĀsāʾ), from Aramaic אָסְיָא (ʾāsyā, “physician, doctor, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠asû⁠/) from Sumerian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠azu⁠/, “physician, healer”); compare Classical Syriac ܐܵܣܝܵܐ (ʾāsyā, “healer, physician, medical doctor”) whence Arabic آسٍ (ʔāsin).

Ἀσά • (Asá) m (indeclinable) (Koine, biblical)

1. Asa:
   1. A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Asa of Judah, a king of Judah mentioned in the Books of Kings
      • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, III Book of Kings 15.8–11:

        Καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Ἀβιοὺ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ εἰκοστῷ καὶ τετάρτῳ ἔτει τοῦ Ἱεροβοὰμ καὶ θάπτεται μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, καὶ βασιλεύει Ἀσὰ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ. Ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τετάρτῳ καὶ εἰκοστῷ τοῦ Ἱεροβοὰμ βασιλέως Ἰσραὴλ βασιλεύει Ἀσὰ ἐπὶ Ἰούδαν. Καὶ τεσσαράκοντα καὶ ἓν ἔτος ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ Ἀνὰ θυγάτηρ Ἀβεσσαλώμ. Καὶ ἐποίησεν Ἀσὰ τὸ εὐθὲς ἐνώπιον Κυρίου ὡς Δαυὶδ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ.

        And Abiu slept with his fathers in the twenty-fourth year of Jeroboam, and he is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Asa his son reigns in his stead. In the four and twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa begins to reign over Juda. And he reigned one and forty years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Ana, daughter of Abessalom. And Asa did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, as David his father.

• Ἀσάφ (Asáph)

• Greek: Ασά (Asá)
• → Latin: Asa
  • English: Asa
  • French: Asa
  • Italian: Asa
  • Portuguese: Asa
  • Spanish: Asa

• G760 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible