Asaph.
1. A leader of the choir in David's time, and once called a 'seer.' 2 Chronicles 29:30. He was descended from Gershom the Levite. 1 Chronicles 6:39; 1 Chronicles 1:15, 1 Chronicles 1:15; 1 Chronicles 1:16, 1 Chronicles 1:16, 1 Chronicles 1:16, etc. Twelve psalms are attributed to him, namely, 50, 73 to 83. His office seems to have been hereditary. Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Nehemiah 7:44, etc.
2. Father of Joah recorder to Hezekiah. 2 Kings 18:18, 2 Kings 1:18; Isaiah 36:3, Isaiah 1:36.
3. A Levite, whose descendants dwelt in Jerusalem after the exile. 1 Chronicles 9:15.
4. A Korhite, whose posterity were porters in the tabernacle in the time of David. 1 Chronicles 26:1.
5. An officer, probably a Jew, controller of the forests of king Artaxerxes in Judaea. Nehemiah 2:8.