אָסַף asaph

Hebrew word for “to gather” · Strong’s H622 · used 200 times in 187 verses

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Meaning

1) to gather, receive, remove, gather in;

How it is translated

Glosses given for asaph in context, with how often each is used:

• gathered 67
• will gather 28
• will be gathered 18
• gather 11
• gather yourselves 5
• have gathered 4
• will be removed 4
• rearguard 3
• withdraw 3
• will deliver 3
• had gathered 3
• removed 2

Where it is used

Also in 19 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 11 (5), Genesis 29 (4), 2 Kings 5 (4), Genesis 49 (3), 2 Chronicles 29 (3), 2 Chronicles 34 (3), Jeremiah 8 (3), Genesis 25 (2), Exodus 23 (2), Leviticus 25 (2)

Forms

• ויאסף 27
• ויאספו 23
• נאספו 15
• יאסף 12
• אסף 11
• אספו 10
• יאספו 6
• ואספת 5
• ונאספו 5
• האספו 5

Words used with it

Words that share verses with asaph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָקֵן zaqen “old” 13
• יְרוּשָׁלִַם yerushalaim “Jerusalem” 16
• עִיר ir “city” 18
• קָבַץ qavats “to gather” 11
• פְּלִשְׁתִּי pelishti “Philistine” 12
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 19
• שָׁם sham “there” 15
• שָׂדֶה sadeh “land” 12
• עִם im “with” 16
• מַחֲנֶה machaneh “camp” 10
• מִלְחָמָה milchamah “battle” 11
• חָנָה chanah “to camp” 9

Key verses

The verses using asaph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I…
• Genesis 49:1 — And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
• Leviticus 26:25 — And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the…
• Psalms 35:15 — But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did…
• Psalms 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
• Ecclesiastes 2:26 — For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may…
• Isaiah 57:1 — The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to…
• Jeremiah 8:2 — And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have…
• Habakkuk 2:5 — Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be…
• Zephaniah 3:8 — Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the…
• Zechariah 12:3 — And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of…
• Zechariah 14:2 — For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.