James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Abiasaph

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Abiasaph


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ABIASAPH (= ‘father has gathered’), Exo_6:24 = EBIASAPH (= ‘father has increased’), 1Ch_6:23; 1Ch_6:37; 1Ch_9:18.—The name of a division of the Korahite Levites, mentioned only in the genealogies of P [Note: Priestly Narrative.] and the Chronicler. According to 1Ch_9:19; 1Ch_26:1 (in the latter passage read Ebiasaph for Asaph), a section of the division acted as doorkeepers.