| Lexical Summary Asa: Asa, a king of JudahOriginal Word: Ἀσά Transliteration: Asa Phonetic Spelling: (as-ah') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Asa, a king of Judah Meaning: Asa -- a king of Judah Strong's ConcordanceAsa. Of Hebrew origin ('Aca'); Asa, an Israelite -- Asa. see HEBREW 'Aca' Thayer's Greek LexiconSTRONGS NT 760: Ασα Ασα (Chaldean אֲסָא, to cure), Asa, king of Judah, son of king Abijah (1 Kings 15:8ff): Matthew 1:7f. (L T Tr WH read Ἀσάφ which see.) STRONGS NT 760a: ἀσαίνωἀσαίνω: in 1 Thessalonians 3:3, Kuenen and Cobet (in their N. T. ad fidem manuscript Vat., Lugd. 1860 (pref., p. xc.)), following Lachmann (who followed Valckenaer in following J. J. Reiske (Animad. ad Polybius, p. 68); see Valck. Opuscc. ii. 246-249) in his larger edit., conjectured and received into their text μηδέν ἀσαίνεσθαι, which they think to be equivalent to ά᾿χθεσθαι, χαλεπως φέρειν. But there is no necessity for changing the Rec. (see  σαίνω, 2 b. β.), nor can it be shown that ἀσαίνω is used by Greek writings for ἀσάω. | 



