| Strong's Concordance Asaph: Asa, a king of JudahOriginal Word: Ἀσά, ὁ Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Transliteration: Asaph Phonetic Spelling: (as-ah') Short Definition: Asa Definition: Asa, son of Abijah and father of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah about 900 B.C. for 41 years. Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 760: Ασα Ασα (Chaldean אֲסָא, to cure), Asa, king of Judah, son of king Abijah (1 Kings 15:8ff): Matthew 1:7f. (L T Tr WH read Ἀσάφ which see.) STRONGS NT 760a: ἀσαίνωἀσαίνω: in 1 Thessalonians 3:3, Kuenen and Cobet (in their N. T. ad fidem manuscript Vat., Lugd. 1860 (pref., p. xc.)), following Lachmann (who followed Valckenaer in following J. J. Reiske (Animad. ad Polybius, p. 68); see Valck. Opuscc. ii. 246-249) in his larger edit., conjectured and received into their text μηδέν ἀσαίνεσθαι, which they think to be equivalent to ά᾿χθεσθαι, χαλεπως φέρειν. But there is no necessity for changing the Rec. (see  σαίνω, 2 b. β.), nor can it be shown that ἀσαίνω is used by Greek writings for ἀσάω. Of Hebrew origin ('Aca'); Asa, an Israelite -- Asa.  see HEBREW 'Aca'  Englishman's ConcordanceStrong's Greek 760 2 Occurrences Ἀσάφ — 2 Occ. Matthew 1:7 N GRK: ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἀσάφ NAS: and Abijah the father of Asa. KJV: Abia begat Asa; INT: was father of Asa Matthew 1:8 N | 



