Asaph is the name of three men from the Old Testament of the Hebrew Bible. The articles related to the son of Berachiah and descendant of Kohath refer to the same person.

• Asaph, the father of Joah
  Joah
  Joah means "Yahu is his brother," "God is his brother," or some variation. It is derived from the two words "Yahu" and "ach" .-Bible occurrences:Joah is the name of four men in the Bible:...
  
   
• Asaph, son of Berachiah the Gershonite
  Gershonite
  The Gershonites were one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times. The Bible claims that the Gershonites were all descended from the eponymous Gershon, a son of Levi, although biblical scholars regard this as a postdictional metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness...
  
   

Together with Heman, the grandson of the Israelite prophet Samuel , he and his male descendants were set aside by King David to worship God in song and music . He authored Psalms 50, and Psalms 73 to 83.

• Asaph, a Levite descendant of Kohath
  Kohath
  According to the Torah, Kohath was one of the sons of Levi, and the patriarchal founder of the Kohathites, one of the four main divisions among the Levites in Biblical times; in some apocryphal texts such as the Testament of Levi, and the Book of Jubilees, Levi's wife, Kohath's mother, is named as...
  
   
• Asaph, the keeper of the king's forest under the Persian king Artaxerxes I Longimanus