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Strong's #91: 'Agagiy (pronounced ag-aw-ghee')

patrial or patronymic from 90; an Agagite or descendent (subject) of Agag:--Agagite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'ăgâgı̂y

Agagite = "I will overtop"

1) said of Haman, Haman the Agagite

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: patrial or patronymic from H90



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Esther 3:1: "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat"
Esther 3:10: "and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy."
Esther 8:3: "the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against"
Esther 8:5: "devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy"
Esther 9:24: "Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised"









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