Asaph
a.saph is a personal name appearing in musical service, family lines, administration, and psalm headings.
The term is used as a personal name, most visibly in accounts of singers and their descendants, while also naming a father in administrative records, a royal park keeper, and the figure named in several psalm headings.
Senses in use
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Personal name in varied narrative and heading contexts · dominant
The supplied morphology consistently marks the form as a proper noun. In 1 Chronicles 16:5 the APB renders Asaph as head among musicians and again as sounding cymbals; in 1 Chronicles 25:2 it identifies named men as sons of Asaph and says they prophesied under Asaph's hand. The name also occurs in 2 Kings 18:18 for Joah's father, in Nehemiah 2:8 for the keeper of the king's park, and in Psalm 50:1 in the APB heading, “A melody of Asaph.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the name directly in narrative clauses, such as “Asaph served as the head” in 1 Chronicles 16:5 and “Joah son of Asaph” in 2 Kings 18:18. In some psalm verses it explicitly supplies a heading such as “A melody of Asaph” in Psalm 50:1, while other supplied psalm verses do not visibly include the name.