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# עֲשָׂיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6222

**Asaiah** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Asaiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6222/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עֲשָׂיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6222/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ασαιας, etc.; 𝔊L in Kgs. Αζαριας;— servant of Josiah 2 K 22:12, 14 = 2 Ch 34:20. Simeonite 1 Ch 4:36. Levites: 6:15; 15:6, 11. 9:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Asaiah (8).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 6:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.6.15/#tree)

שִׁמְעָ֥א בְנ֛וֹ חַגִּיָּ֥ה בְנ֖וֹ עֲשָׂיָ֥ה בְנֽוֹ׃פ

*Word for word:* Shimea son his Haggiah son his Asaiah son his

*JPS 1917:* Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

[1 Chronicles 9:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.9.5/#tree)

וּמִן־הַשִּׁ֣ילוֹנִ֔י עֲשָׂיָ֥ה הַבְּכ֖וֹר וּבָנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and of the Shilonite\[s\] Asaiah the firstborn and sons his

*JPS 1917:* And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the first-born and his sons.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6222.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6222/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).