Agag אֲגָג
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| אֲגָג | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | agag |
| Strong's number | H90 (H0090H, H0090G) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | name of a man |
| Gloss | Agag |
| Occurrences | 8 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Samuel (5) |
Agag (Hebrew אֲגָג, Strong's H90) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Agag”. It occurs 8 times.
Definition
H0090H: Agag
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.15.8
Also named: a.ga.gi (אֲגָגִי "Agagite" H0091)
§ Agag = "I will overtop"
king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel
Also named: a.ga.gi (אֲגָגִי "Agagite" H0091)
§ Agag = "I will overtop"
king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel
H0090G: Agag
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Num.24.7
§ Agag = "I will overtop"
king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel
§ Agag = "I will overtop"
king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | agag (8) |
|---|---|
| BSB | agag (5), than agag (1), he (1), hacked agag (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Agag, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Numbers
- Numbers 24:7He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.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.
1 Samuel
- 1 Samuel 15:8And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
- 1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.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 destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- 1 Samuel 15:20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.“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.
- 1 Samuel 15:32Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.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.”
- 1 Samuel 15:33And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.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.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).