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a-mā´sı̄ (עמשׂי, ‛ămaÌ„say, perhaps rather to be read עמּש××™, ‛ammishay; so Wellhausen, IJG, II, 24, n.2):
(1) A name in the genealogy of Kohath, son of Elkanah, a Levite of the Kohathite family (compare ; ).
(2) Chief of the captains who met David at Ziklag and tendered him their allegiance. Some have identified him with Amasa and others with Abishai, who is called Abshai in m (compare ). The difficulty is that neither Amasa nor Abishai occupied the rank of the chief of thirty according to the lists in 2 Sam 23 and 1 Ch 11, the rank to which David is supposed to have appointed into (compare ).
(3) One of the trumpet-blowing priests who greeted David when he brought back the Ark of the Covenant (compare ).