Asaph
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Hebrew אָסַף (’Āsāp̄); meaning "Gathered by God".
Proper noun
Asaph
- A biblical figure associated with music.
- An alternative name for the Judean king Asa that gospel writer St. Matthew used.
- An early Welsh bishop and saint.
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Etymology 2
Proper noun
Asaph
- Obsolete spelling of Azov.
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “ 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.