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Asaph (Hebrew for "God has gathered") may refer to:

• Asaph Hall, 19th century astronomer
• Saint Asaph, first Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Asaph in Wales
• Asaph ben Berekhyah (also known as Asaph ha-Rophe; Asaph ha-Yarhoni; Asaph ha-Yehuda Asaph Iudaeus), 6th-century Jewish physician
• The Diocese of Saint Asaph
• St. Asaph, a town in North Wales
• Psalms of Asaph

Asaph also refers to four men from the Old Testament:

• Asaph, the father of Joah (2 Kings 18:18, 37)
• Asaph, son of Berachiah the Gershonite (2 Chronicles 20:14)
• Asaph, a Levite descendant of Kohath (1 Chr. 26:1)
• Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest under the Persian king Artaxerxes I Longimanus (Nehemiah 2:8)

(The Asaph mentioned in the Old Teastament is the same man, known by different titles. Just as one can see that Melchisedec is an order of priests as opposed to one man or Herod being a title for a king, Asaph is the opposite--he was known by different titles because he had different responsibilities. He wrote Psalm 77 and has been identified as David's chief musician also.)

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Meaning: convener, or collector.

1. A Levite; one of the leaders of David's choir (1Chr 6:39). Psalms 50 and 73-83 inclusive are attributed to him. He is mentioned along with David as skilled in music, and a "seer" (2Chr 29:30). The "sons of Asaph," mentioned in 1Chr 25:1, 2Chr 20:14, and Ez 2:41, were his descendants, or more probably a class of poets or singers who recognized him as their master.
2. The "recorder" in the time of Hezekiah (2Kg 18:18, 37).
3. The "keeper of the king's forest," to whom Nehemiah requested from Artaxerxes a "letter" that he might give him timber for the temple at Jerusalem (Neh 2:8).

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