עֲשָׂיָה
Asaiah
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H6222 appears in the Book of 1 Chronicles — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 4:36 וַ/עֲשָׂיָ֧ה conj + n Proper and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 6:30 עֲשָׂיָ֥ה n Proper Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.
- 1 Chronicles 9:5 עֲשָׂיָ֥ה n Proper Of the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.
- 1 Chronicles 15:6 עֲשָׂיָ֣ה n Proper of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two hundred twenty;
- 1 Chronicles 15:11 עֲשָׂיָה֙ n Proper David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
עשיה (ʻĂsâyâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Asaiah.” It clusters heavily in 1 Chronicles, which alone accounts for 63% of its uses. With 8 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in 2 Kings 22:12. For the data behind this summary, explore 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6222 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 63%
- 2 Kings 2 verses 25%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 6 verses · 75%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Asaiah 6×, Asahiah 2×
- American Standard Version: Asaiah 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Asaiah 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Asaiah 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6222 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6222 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6222 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6222 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 5 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. servant of Josiah 2 K 22:12, 14 = 2 Ch 34:20. e.g. 2 Kings 22:12
- 2. Simeonite 1 Ch 4:36. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:36
- 3. Levites:
- a. 6:15; 15:6, 11. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:15
- b. 9:5. e.g. 1 Chronicles 9:5
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. Ασαιας, etc.; 𝔊L in Kgs. Αζαριας;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עשה (ʻâsâh) (H6213) — to do.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עֲשִׂיָּה
- (preced.) doing, action. Y. Pes. IX, 36ᵈ top (ref. to וחדל לעשות, Num. IX, 13) החדל בשעת ע׳ he who fails (to sacrifice, without being prevented) at the time when the Passover sacrifice is to be done. Ib. חוץ לַעֲשִׂיָּיתוֹ out of the time of doing it. Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XXVI, 1) ע׳ בתחלה קימה וכ׳ ‘ye shall not make’ refers to the original making and putting up, ‘ye shall not put up’ means that you must not erect it when it has fallen down. Meg. 17ᵃ, a. e. ע׳ celebrating (Purim, Esth. IX, 27), contrad. to זְכִירָה. Sifré Deut. 212 (ref. to Deut. XXI, 12) נאמר כאן ע׳ ונאמרה ע׳ וכ׳ here is an action mentioned concerning the head, and a doing is named concerning the nails מה ע׳ האמורה וכ׳ as the action concerning the head means removing (the hair), so &c.; Yeb. 48ᵃ; a. fr.—Pl. עֲשִׂיּוֹת. Yoma 55ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XVI, 15) שיהיו כל עֲשִׂיּוֹתָיו שוות that all his actions (sprinklings) should be alike. Ib. 71ᵇ, sq.; a. e.—[עשייה, Keth. 53ᵃ, v. עֲשֵׂי.] e.g. Numbers 9:13
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H6222 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| עֲשָׂיָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:30 | 4 |
| וַ/עֲשָׂיָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 22:14 | 1 |
| וַ/עֲשָׂיָ֧ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 4:36 | 1 |
| עֲשָׂיָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:6 | 1 |
| עֲשָׂיָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 15:11 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H6222, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- בעשיה Baʻăsêyâh H1202 Baaseiah
- יעשו Yaʻăsûw H3299 Jaasau
- יעשיאל Yaʻăsîyʼêl H3300 Jasiel
- מעשי Maʻăsay H4640 Maasiai
- עשהאל ʻĂsâhʼêl H6214 Asahel
- עשו ʻÊsâv H6215 Esau
- עשיאל ʻĂsîyʼêl H6221 Asiel
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 7 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Asaiah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the Lord hath made).
+ A prince of one of the families of the Simeonites in the reign of Hezekiah. (1 Chronicles 4:36) (B.C. 910.) + A Levite in the reign of David, chief of the family of Merari. (1 Chronicles 6:30) With 120 of his brethren he took part in bringing the ark from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David. (1 Chronicles 15:6,11) + The first-born of "the Shilonite," from Shiloni, (1 Chronicles 9:5) who with his family dwelt in Jerusalem after the return from Babylon. (B.C. 536.) In (Nehemiah 11:5) he is called Maaseiah. + (2 Chronicles 34:20) [Asahiah]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the Lord hath wrought
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
