asahel · Asahel

What it means

asahel (עֲשָׂהאֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Asahel”.

The name of several men. The best known is the son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab and Abishai, very swift of foot, whom Abner killed (2 Samuel 2:18-23). It means "God has made".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×14
• 1 Chronicles×6
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1

• 2 Samuel 2:18

  The three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift of foot like one of the gazelles that are in the field.

• 2 Samuel 2:19

  Asahel pursued Abner, and he did not turn aside to go to the right or to the left from following Abner.

• 2 Samuel 2:20

  Abner turned back and said, “Is that you, Asahel?” He said, “It is I.”

• 2 Samuel 2:21

  Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right or to your left, and seize for yourself one of the young men and take for yourself what he is wearing.” But Asahel would not turn away from following him.

• 2 Samuel 2:22

  Abner again said to Asahel, “Turn away from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? And how could I lift my face to Joab your brother?”

• 2 Samuel 2:23

  But he refused to turn away; so Abner struck him with the butt of the spear in the belly, and the spear came out behind him; and he fell there and died in his place. And it happened that all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died stood still.

• 2 Samuel 2:30

  And Joab returned from following Abner and gathered all the people; and of the servants of David nineteen men were missing, and Asahel.

• 2 Samuel 2:32

  They carried Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and day dawned for them at Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 3:27

  When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly, and he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

• 2 Samuel 3:30

  So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put to death Asahel their brother at Gibeon in the battle.

• 2 Samuel 23:24

  Asahel, the brother of Joab, was among the thirty; Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem;

• 1 Chronicles 2:16

  And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

• 1 Chronicles 11:26

  The mighty men of the troops: Asahel brother of Joab; Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem;

• 1 Chronicles 27:7

  The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division, twenty-four thousand.

• 2 Chronicles 17:8

  and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Joram, the priests.

• 2 Chronicles 31:13

  Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were appointed under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the arrangement of Hezekiah the king and of Azariah the leader of the house of Elohim.

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood against this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

And 6 more times.