ʻĂsâhʼêl — H6214
H6214 · Hebrew — עשהאל
Pronunciation: as-aw-ale'
Definition
masculine proper noun
Asahel, the name of four Israelites
- Asahel = "God-made"
- nephew of David, son of David's sister Zeruiah, and brother of Joab and Abishai; swift of foot he was killed by Abner when he pursued him in battle and caught him
- a Levite in the reign of king Jehoshaphat of Judah who went through the kingdom giving instruction in the law
- a Levite in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah in charge of the tithes and dedicated things in the temple
- a priest, father of Jonathan, in the time of Ezra
Usually translated as
Asahel
Origin
from H6213 and H410; God has made
Occurrences
ʻĂsâhʼêl occurs 18 times in 17 verses of the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Samuel (11), 1 Chronicles (3), 2 Chronicles (2), Ezra (1)
- 2 Samuel 2:18 — And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֑ל): and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 2 Samuel 2:18 — And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂהאֵל֙) was as light of foot as a wild roe.
- 2 Samuel 2:19 — And Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֖ל) pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.
- 2 Samuel 2:20 — Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֑ל)? And he answered, I am.
- 2 Samuel 2:21 — And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֔ל) would not turn aside from following of him.
- 2 Samuel 2:22 — And Abner said again to Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֔ל), Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?
- 2 Samuel 2:23 — Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֛ל) fell down and died stood still.
- 2 Samuel 2:30 — And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂה).
- 2 Samuel 2:32 — And they took up Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֔ל), and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
- 2 Samuel 3:27 — And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel (עֲשָׂה) his brother.
- 2 Samuel 3:30 — So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֧ל) at Gibeon in the battle.
- 2 Samuel 23:24 — Asahel (עֲשָׂה) the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
- 1 Chronicles 2:16 — Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂה), three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:26 — Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel (עֲשָׂה) the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,
- 1 Chronicles 27:7 — The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel (עֲשָׂה) the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 17:8 — And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֡ל), and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
- 2 Chronicles 31:13 — And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel (וַעֲשָׂהאֵ֜ל), and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
- Ezra 10:15 — Only Jonathan the son of Asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵ֛ל) and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.