Agag
אֲגָגStrong’s H0090agag (a-gag)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Agag is the Hebrew word usually translated “agag” and “more than agag”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“He 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.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Num.24.7
- A man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.15.8
How it's translated
- agag 7
- more than agag 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 5
- Numbers 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
אֲגָג agag · 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
אֲגָג agag · 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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.