Abiasaph
Abiasaph (meaning: "father of gathering", from abi, son, and
asaph, to gather) was a son of Korah of the house of Levi
according to Exodus 6:24, born in Egypt....
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a-bi'-a-saf, ab-i-a'-saf ('abhi-'acaph, "my father has
gathered"): A descendant of Kohath the son of Levi (Ex 6:24; 1
Ch 6:23,37 (8,22); 9:19). In Chronicles the name is 'ebh-
yacaph, which seems to be a mere variant spelling. The
Samaritan version has the same form in Exodus. The list in
Exodus terminates with Abiasaph, who is to be regarded a...
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(father of gathering, i.e. gathered), Ex 6:24 otherwise
written Ebi/asaph. 1Ch 6:23,37; 9:19 one of the descendants of
Korah, and head of the Korhites. Among the remarkable
descendants of Abiasaph were Samuel the prophet, 1Sa 1:11 and
Heman the singer....
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father of gathering; the gatherer, the youngest of the three
sons of Korah the Levite, head of a family of Korhites
(Ex.
6:24); called Ebisaph (1 Chr. 6:37)....
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("whose father God took away," namely, Korah: Numbers
16. Or else, "the father of gathering, the gatherer".)
Head of a family of Korhites (a house of the Kohathites):
Exodus 6:24; 1 Chronicles 6:37. Possibly Abiasaph may be a
distinct person from Ebiasaph; in genealogies generations are
often passed over between two persons of the sa...
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And the sons of Korah; Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these
[are] the families of the Korhites....
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