Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(gatherer). (1) Levitical leader of David’s choir (1 Chron. 6:39; 2 Chron. 29:30; Neh. 12:46). Twelve of the Psalms are attributed to him, to wit (Psa. 1 and Psa. 73-83. (2) Ancestor of Joah the chronicler (2 Kings 18:18; Isa. 36:3,22). (3). Keeper of royal forests under Artaxerxes (Neh. 2:8). (4) Another conductor of the Temple choir (1 Chron. 9:15; Neh. 11:17).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
1. A leader of the choir in David’s time, and once called a “seer” (2 Chron. 29:30). He was descended from Gershom the Levite (1 Chron. 6:39; 1 Chron. 15:17,19; 1 Chron. 16:5,7,37). Twelve psalms are attributed to him, namely, Psalm 50, Psalm 73-83. His office seems to have been hereditary (Ezra 2:41; Ezra 3:10; Neh. 7:44).
2. Father of Joah recorder to Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18,37; Isa. 36:3,22).
3. A Levite, whose descendants dwelt in Jerusalem after the exile (1 Chron. 9:15).
4. A Korhite, whose posterity were porters in the tabernacle in the time of David (1 Chron. 26:1).
5. An officer, probably a Jew, controller of the forests of king Artaxerxes in Judaea (Neh. 2:8).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
from 622; collector; Asaph, the name of three Israelites, and of the family of the first
Jackson’s Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names:
a gatherer
Potts’ Bible Proper Names:
He hath taken away; one who completes; collector:―name of three Israelites, 2 Kings 18:18. {Abstulit}