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Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H609

אָסָא

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Asa

57 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: ʼÂçâʼ

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H609is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 4 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H609

Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite

The King James renders it: Asa.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

Asa is rendered "Asa". It stands 57 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.

  • Twenty-nine of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 15:8And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

1 Kings 15:8אָסָ֥א

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twenty-nine of the word's fifty-seven uses are in 2 Chronicles.

The other 35 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Asa44
  • of Asa8
  • to Asa3
  • and Asa1
  • O Asa1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

אָסָםasamstorehouseUses2

All 57, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • לְאָסָ֖א8
  • אָסָ֖א7
  • אָסָ֗א6
  • אָסָ֜א6
  • אָסָ֥א5
  • אָסָא֙5
  • אָסָ֔א5
  • אָסָ֛א3
  • אָ֠סָא2
  • אָסָ֣א2
  • לְאָסָא֙2
  • אָסָא֒1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • proper noun (a name)45HNpm
  • preposition + proper noun (a name)11HR/Npm
  • conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm

1 Kings

twenty-five uses
  • And Abijam rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David, and his son Asa reigned in his place.

    1 Kings 15:8

    • אָסָ֥אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • In the twentieth year of Jeroboam’s reign over Israel, Asa became king of Judah,

    1 Kings 15:9

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Asa did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, as his father David had done.

    1 Kings 15:11

    • אָסָ֛אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    1 Kings 15:13

    • אָסָא֙ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • The high places were not removed, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted to the LORD all his days.

    1 Kings 15:14

    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

    1 Kings 15:16

    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Baasha king of Israel went to war against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    1 Kings 15:17

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Asa
  • So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

    1 Kings 15:18

    • אָ֠סָאʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

    1 Kings 15:20

    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.

    1 Kings 15:22

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • אָסָ֔אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Now the rest of the acts of Asa, along with all his might, all his accomplishments, and the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? In his old age, however, he became diseased in his feet.

    1 Kings 15:23

    • אָ֠סָאʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Asa rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his father David, and his son Jehoshaphat reigned in his place.

    1 Kings 15:24

    • אָסָא֙ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years.

    1 Kings 15:25

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha killed Nadab and reigned in his place.

    1 Kings 15:28

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel throughout their days.

    1 Kings 15:32

    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.

    1 Kings 15:33

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.

    1 Kings 16:8

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • So in the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri went in, struck Elah down, and killed him. And Zimri reigned in his place.

    1 Kings 16:10

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,

    1 Kings 16:15

    • לְאָסָא֙leasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

    1 Kings 16:23

    • לְאָסָא֙leasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the thirty-eighth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Ahab son of Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned in Samaria twenty-two years.

    1 Kings 16:29

    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Asa
  • In the fourth year of Ahab’s reign over Israel, Jehoshaphat son of Asa became king of Judah.

    1 Kings 22:41

    • אָסָ֔אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.

    1 Kings 22:46

    • אָסָ֣אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa

1 Chronicles

two uses
  • Solomon’s son was Rehoboam:

    1 Chronicles 3:10

    • אָסָ֥אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Obadiah son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.

    1 Chronicles 9:16

    • אָסָא֙ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa

2 Chronicles

twenty-nine uses
  • Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

    2 Chronicles 14:1

    • אָסָ֥אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the LORD his God.

    2 Chronicles 14:2

    • אָסָא֙ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Asa had an army of 300,000 men from Judah bearing large shields and spears, and 280,000 men from Benjamin bearing small shields and drawing the bow. All these were mighty men of valor.

    2 Chronicles 14:8

    • לְאָסָ֗אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Asa
  • So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

    2 Chronicles 14:10

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God: “O LORD, there is no one besides You to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on You, and in Your name we have come against this multitude. O LORD, You are our God. Do not let a mere mortal prevail against You.”

    2 Chronicles 14:11

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • So the LORD struck down the Cushites before Asa and Judah, and the Cushites fled.

    2 Chronicles 14:12

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great amount of plunder

    2 Chronicles 14:13

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

    2 Chronicles 15:2

    • אָסָא֒ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: O Asa
  • When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the LORD that was in front of the portico of the LORD’s temple.

    2 Chronicles 15:8

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • So they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.

    2 Chronicles 15:10

    • אָסָֽא׃ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    2 Chronicles 15:16

    • אָסָ֣אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • אָסָא֙ʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • The high places were not removed from Israel, but Asa’s heart was fully devoted all his days.

    2 Chronicles 15:17

    • אָסָ֛אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

    2 Chronicles 15:19

    • אָסָֽא׃ סʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • In the thirty-sixth year of Asa’s reign, Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah and fortified Ramah to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the territory of Asa king of Judah.

    2 Chronicles 16:1

    • אָסָ֔אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • לְאָסָ֖אleasa'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Asa
  • So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:

    2 Chronicles 16:2

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

    2 Chronicles 16:4

    • אָסָ֗אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Then King Asa brought all the men of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials he built up Geba and Mizpah.

    2 Chronicles 16:6

    • וְאָסָ֣אveasa'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Asa
  • At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.

    2 Chronicles 16:7

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

    2 Chronicles 16:10

    • אָסָ֜אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
    • אָסָ֛אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Now the rest of the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

    2 Chronicles 16:11

    • אָסָ֔אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his malady became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.

    2 Chronicles 16:12

    • אָסָ֡אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.

    2 Chronicles 16:13

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • He stationed troops in every fortified city of Judah and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.

    2 Chronicles 17:2

    • אָסָ֥אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • And Jehoshaphat walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn away from it; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

    2 Chronicles 20:32

    • אָסָ֖אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa
  • Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, which stated: “This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘You have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or of Asa king of Judah,

    2 Chronicles 21:12

    • אָסָ֥אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa

Jeremiah

one use
  • Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the bodies of the men he had struck down along with Gedaliah was a large one that King Asa had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel. Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

    Jeremiah 41:9

    • אָסָ֔אʾasa'proper noun (a name)tagged: Asa

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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