Asa
a'-sa ('aca', "healer"; Asa):(1) A king of Judah, the third one after the separation of Judah and Israel. He was the son of Abijah and grandson of Rehoboam. Maacah, his mother, ...
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Asadias
as-a-di'-as (Asadias): An ancestor of Baruch (Baruch 1:1).
Asael
a'-sa-el, as'-a-el. SeeASIEL(Apocrypha).
Asahel
as'-a-hel (`asah'el, "God hath made"; Asael):(1) The brother of Joab and Abishai. The three were sons of Zeruiah, one of David's sisters (1Ch 2:15,16;2Sa 2:18, etc.). The three ...
Asahiah
as-a-hi'-a (`asayah, "Yahweh hath made"; the King James Version form; the Revised Version (British and American)ASAIAH): "The king's servant" sent by Josiah with Hilkiah, the pr...
Asaiah
a-sa'-ya ([`asayah], "Yahweh has made," written Asahiah twice in the King James Version (2Ki 22:12,14)):(1) A Levite of the family of Merari, and one of those who helped bring t...
Asana
as'-a-na (Asana, Assana) = Asnah (Ezr 2:50); omitted in Nehemiah. The sons of Asana (temple-servants) returned with Zerubbabel to Jerusalem (1 Esdras 5:31).
Asaph
a'-saf ('acaph): Is the name of three men in the Old Testament, of whom one is the reputed author of Psalms 50 and 73-83. He was one of David's three chief musicians, the other ...
Asara
as'-a-ra (Asara; the King James Version Azara): The sons of Asara (temple-servants) returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:31). Omitted in Ezra and Nehemiah.
Asaramel
a-sar'-a-mel (Asaramel or Saramel): A name of uncertain origin occurring in 1 Macc 14:28, in the inscription set up in memory of Simon and the Maccabean family. "On the eighteen...
Asareel
a-sa'-re-el, a-sar'-e-el. SeeASAREL.
Asarel
as'-ar-el ('asar'el, "God is ruler"; the King James Version Asareel): A descendant of Judah and a son of Jehallelel (1Ch 4:16).
Asarelah
as-a-re'-la. SeeASHARELAH.
Asbacaphath
as-bak'-a-fath. SeeASBASARETH.
Asbasareth
as-bas'-a-reth (Septuagint: Asbakaphath, or Asbasareth): The Greek rendering of the Assyrian Asshur-ach-iddina ("Esarhaddon") (1 Esdras 5:69; compare alsoEzr 4:2,10). SeeOSNAPPAR.
Ascalon
as'-ka-lon (Askalon): In Apocrypha, both the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) (Judith 2:28; 1 Macc 10:86; 11:60; 12:33). SeeASHKELON.
Ascend
a-send': By derivation the English word implies motion from a lower place to (not merely toward) a higher one; and usage tends to restrict it to cases where the beholder is in t...
Ascension
a-sen'-shun: Most modern Lives of Christ commence at Bethlehem and end with the Ascension, but Christ's life began earlier and continued later. The Ascension is not only a great...
Ascension Of Isaiah
SeeAPOCALYPTIC LITERATURE.
Ascent
a-sent':(1) The rendering in the King James Version twice, the Revised Version (British and American) 14 times correctly, of Hebrew ma`aleh, "ascent," "pass," as a geographical ...
Aschenaz
ash'-e-naz. SeeASHKENAZ.
Aseas
a-se'-as (Asaias = Isshijah (Ezr 10:31)) A son of Annas, who put away his "strange wife" (1 Esdras 9:32).
Asebebias
a-seb-e-bi'-as, a-seb-e-bi'-a (Asebebias; the King James Version Asebebia): Asebebias his sons and brethren returned with Ezra to perform the functions of priesthood in Jerusale...
Asebias
as-e-bi'-as, as-e-bi'-a (Asebias; the King James Version Asebia): Asebias returned with Ezra to perform the function of a priest in Jerusalem (1 Esdras 8:48). Compare Hashabiah ...
Asenath
as'-e-nath (Aseneth): The wife of Joseph, daughter of Potiphera, mother of Manasseh and Ephraim (Ge 41:45,50;46:20). She was evidently an Egyptian woman and bore an Egyptian nam...
Aser
a'-ser (Aser): the King James Version: Greek form of Asher (thus the Revised Version (British and American)) (Lu 2:36;Re 7:6).
Aserer
as'-e-rer SeeSERAR.