ASSIGN

a-sin (nathan, "to give," or "grant," i.e. apportion): Used (Joshua 20:8) of Moses setting apart Bezer as one of the three cities of refuge on the East of the Jordan (compare Deuteronomy 4:41-43); also of Joab's stationing Uriah in a place of mortal peril in battle (2 Samuel 11:16).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.