Strong's #6022: `Amasay (pronounced am-aw-sah'-ee)

from 6006; burdensome; Amasai, the name of three Israelites:--Amasai.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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‛ămâśay

Amasai = "burdensome"

1) a warrior and chief of the captains of Judah and Benjamin who joined David at Ziklag

2) a Kohathite Levite, father of Mahath and ancestor of Samuel

3) a priest who blew the trumpet before the ark

4) another Kohathite Levite in the reign of king Hezekiah of Judah

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H6006

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

1 Chronicles 6:25: "And the sons of Elkanah; Amasai, and Ahimoth."
1 Chronicles 6:35: "the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,"
1 Chronicles 12:18: "Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side,"
1 Chronicles 15:24: "And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests,"
2 Chronicles 29:12: "arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of"