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אֲגָג

a.gagAgag
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man8 occurrences2 books6 verses
This name belongs to 2 different people in the Bible:
  • Agag: Amalekite king captured and killed by Samuel
  • Agag: King mentioned in Balaam's oracle about Israel

Definition

or אֲגָג; of uncertain derivation (compare H89); flame; Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings
Traditional renderings: Agag.

Glossary entries

Agag Agagite

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

8 total
  1. Numbers 24:7מֵֽאֲגַג֙ · than Agag
    Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
  2. 1 Samuel 15:8אֲגַ֥ג · Agag
    He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
  3. 1 Samuel 15:9אֲגָ֗ג · Agag
    Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
  4. 1 Samuel 15:20אֲגַג֙ · Agag
    “But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
  5. 1 Samuel 15:32 (3×)אֲגַג֙ · Agag; אֲגַ֖ג · Agag; אֲגָ֔ג · for he
    Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
  6. 1 Samuel 15:33אֲגָ֛ג · hacked Agag
    But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.