Asaph [Ā’saph]—he that gathered or removed reproach.

1. Father of Joah who was the recorder to Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 37; 2 Chron. 29:13; Isa. 36:3, 22).
2. Son of Berechiah of the Gershonite family appointed by David over the service of song and by Solomon in the Temple services (1 Chron. 6:39; 15:17, 19). David called this Asaph “the seer” (2 Chron. 29:30).
3. A Levite, whose posterity lived in Jersusalem after the exile (1 Chron. 9:15).
4. A descendant of Kohath, son of Levi, whose descendants were tabernacle porters in David’s time (1 Chron. 26:1).
5. The keeper of the king’s park in Palestine under the king of Persia (Neh. 2:8).