Amasai
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There were four biblical
characters called Amasai ( "burdensome", 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.
Bible
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characters called Amasai ( "burdensome", 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
Amasai Levin
Amasai Levin was an Israeli poet and translator. Levin is perhaps best known for his lyrics for Badad , a popular Hebrew song, famous for its performance by Zohar Argov and the subject of many subsequent renditions....
. 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 DavidDavidDavid was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Hebrew Bible and, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, an ancestor of Jesus Christ through both Saint Joseph and Mary...
in the "stronghold," probably of AdullamAdullamAdullam is a region of Israel near the Valley of Elah , west of Gush Etzion. The villages of Aderet, Neve Michael/Roglit, and Aviezer are located here. In the 1950s there were plans to set up Adullam as a formal political/economic region, on the model of Lachish, but the plans were not carried out...
(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 KohathitesKohathitesThe Kohathites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. The Bible claims that the Kohathites were all descended from the eponymous Kohath, a son of Levi, although some biblical scholars regard this as a postdictional metaphor providing an aetiology of the...
who took a prominent part at the instance of HezekiahHezekiahHezekiah was the son of Ahaz and the 14th king of Judah. Edwin Thiele has concluded that his reign was between c. 715 and 686 BC. He is also one of the most prominent kings of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible....
in the cleansing of the temple (2 Chr. 29:12).