The Hebrew proper name Abiyasaph (אֲבִיאָסָף) means "My Father has gathered" — a compound of ab (father) and asaph (to gather, assemble). The name appears in Exodus 6:24 as a son of Korah, the Levite family infamous for their rebellion against Moses and Aaron (Numbers 16).
The name Abiyasaph — "My Father has gathered" — carries remarkable redemptive weight given its context. Korah's rebellion resulted in divine judgment: the earth swallowed Korah and his company (Numbers 16:32-33). Yet Numbers 26:11 declares: "the line of Korah, however, did not die out." Abiyasaph's descendants became temple gatekeepers and musicians — including the sons of Korah who authored Psalms 42, 44–49, and 84–88, some of the most beautiful in the Psalter. The name itself is a theological statement: God gathers to Himself even those from broken and rebellious lineages. This is grace — gathering the scattered, redeeming the disgraced, making worshippers from the children of judgment.