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Strong's #90: 'Agag (pronounced ag-ag')

or uAgag {Ag-awg'}; of uncertain derivation (compare 89); flame; Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings:--Agag.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ăgag

Agag = "I will overtop"

1) king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: of uncertain derivation, compare with H89



Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Numbers 24:7: "shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted."
1 Samuel 15:8: "And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all"
1 Samuel 15:9: "But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen,"
1 Samuel 15:20: "sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites."
1 Samuel 15:32: "Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. came"
1 Samuel 15:32: "Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag"
1 Samuel 15:32: "came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death"
1 Samuel 15:33: "among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces hewed Agag in pieces before"









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