Hebrew word · H1202

בַּעֲשֵׂיָה

ba'aseyah

Baaseiah

A personal name found only here. The ending -yāh is the short form of the divine name (YHWH). The first part is unclear. It may come from ʿāśâ ('make, do'), giving something like 'work of Yah'. Others link it to a root meaning 'Yah has made'.

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at 1Ch.6.40;

son of: Malchijah (H4441);

father of: Michael (H4317J)

§ Baaseiah = "in the service of Jehovah"

a Gershonite Levite, one of the forefathers of Asaph the singer

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of 1 Chronicles 6:40

Range of meaning

A personal name found only here. The ending -yāh is the short form of the divine name (YHWH). The first part is unclear. It may come from ʿāśâ ('make, do'), giving something like 'work of Yah'. Others link it to a root meaning 'Yah has made'.

Against the English

English versions simply spell the name out. No translation question is involved.

Used elsewhere in the period

The common name Maaseiah (Maʿaśeyah, 'work of Yah') appears more than twenty times, often for Levites and priests. The Greek Septuagint manuscripts here vary between Baasia-type and Maasia-type spellings.

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:40 בַּעֲשֵׂיָ֖ה Baaseiah

    the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

    Here: An ancestor of Asaph who appears only here. The meaning of the name is uncertain, and the spelling may be a copying slip for Maaseiah, 'work of the LORD'.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.