Amasai
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1. The chief of the thirty "mighty men" from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin who joined David's men at Ziklag (I Chr 12:16-18).
2. The son of Elkanah; a Levite of the family of Kohath. He appears also in the lists of musicians as the ancestor of Heman the singer in the time of David (I Chr 6:22, 25, 31, 33, 35).
3. A priest in the time of David. He sounded the trumpet before the ark when David brought it to Jerusalem.
4. A Levite of the family of Kohath whose son Mahath assisted in the cleansing of the Temple as ordered by King Hezekiah in the first year of his reign (II Chr 29:3-5, 12).
Concordance
AMASAI 1:
I Chr 12:18
AMASAI 2:
I Chr 6:25, 35
AMASAI 3:
I Chr 15:24
AMASAI 3:
II Chr 29:12
Amasai (āmăs'āī, āmā'sāī), in the Bible. 1 Chief of the deserters from Saul to David. 2 Levite contemporary with Hezekiah.
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Amasai
This article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a publication now in the public domain.
There were four biblical characters called Amasai (Hebrew: עֲמָשַׂי "burdensome", pronounced [ˈamasai]).
The name is rarely used in modern Hebrew. Its only known contemporary appearance is in the first name of the poet and translator Amasai Levin. It is used less rarely as a Hebrew family name.
- Amasai the Levite, son of Elkanah, of the ancestry of Samuel (1 Chr. 6:25, 35).
- The leader of a body of men who joined David in the "stronghold," probably of Adullam (1 Chr. 12:18).
- Amasai the priest who was appointed to precede the ark with blowing of trumpets on its removal from the house of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 15:24).
- Amasai, the father of a Levite, one of the two Kohathites who took a prominent part at the instance of Hezekiah in the cleansing of the temple (2 Chr. 29:12).
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