אָסָא

a.saAsa
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man58 occurrences4 books52 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people in the Bible:
  • Asa: Levite gatekeeper who resettled in Jerusalem
  • Asa: King of Judah, son of Abijah; father of Jehoshaphat

Definition

of uncertain derivation; Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite
Traditional renderings: Asa.

Glossary entries

Asa

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

58 total
  1. 2 Chronicles 16:10אָסָ֛א · 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. 2 Chronicles 16:11אָסָ֔א · of Asa
    Now the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
  3. 2 Chronicles 16:12אָסָ֡א · Asa
    In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa became diseased in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his illness he did not seek the LORD, but only the physicians.
  4. 2 Chronicles 16:13אָסָ֖א · Asa
    So in the forty-first year of his reign, Asa died and rested with his fathers.
  5. 2 Chronicles 17:2אָסָ֥א · 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.
  6. 2 Chronicles 20:32אָסָ֖א · 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.
  7. 2 Chronicles 21:12אָסָ֥א · of 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,
  8. Jeremiah 41:9אָסָ֔א · Asa
    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.