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title: אָסָא — Asa · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אָסָא (609), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 58 times: Asa. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אָסָא

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«אָסָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Asa** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 58 times · **Key:** 609 · **BDB:** אָסָא

### Glosses

Asa (43); of.Asa (13); O.Asa (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Asa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/609/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/609/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (perhaps healer) I king of Judah, son of Abijam and father of Jehoshaphat 1 K 15:8, 9, 11 + 24 times 1 K 15; 16; 22; 1 Ch 3:10 2 Ch 13:23 + 28 times 2 Ch 14–21; Je 41:9. Perhaps apoc. theophoric name, cf. רְפָאֵל. Also son of Elkanah and father of Berechiah 1 Ch 9:16.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אָסָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/609/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 15:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.9/)

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וּבִשְׁנַ֣ת עֶשְׂרִ֔ים לְיָרָבְעָ֖ם מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מָלַ֥ךְ אָסָ֖א מֶ֥לֶךְ יְהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in year twenty of Jeroboam the.king of.Israel he.became.king Asa the.king of.Judah

*JPS 1917:* And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.

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[1 Kings 15:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.15.11/)

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וַיַּ֧עַשׂ אָסָ֛א הַיָּשָׁ֖ר בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה כְּדָוִ֖ד אָבִֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.did Asa the right in the.eyes of.Yahweh like David ancestor his

*JPS 1917:* And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.

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