Bible Names

Asa: meaning of the name

Asa means “physician; cure.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Asa in Hebrew and Greek

אָסָא H609

ʼÂçâʼ (aw-saw') — Asa, the name of a king and of a Levite

of uncertain derivation;

Ἀσά G760

Asá — Asa, an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (H0609);

People named Asa in the Bible

Asa in Scripture

“Asa” appears in 54 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 1 Kings 15:8

    And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Kings 15:9

    And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

  • 1 Kings 15:11

    And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

  • 1 Kings 15:13

    And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

  • 1 Kings 15:14

    But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

  • 1 Kings 15:16

    And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

  • 1 Kings 15:17

    And Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

  • 1 Kings 15:18

    Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben–hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,