ʼĂgag — H90

Definition

masculine proper noun

Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings

1. Agag = "I will overtop"
2. king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel

Usually translated as

Agag

Origin

or ʼĂgâg; of uncertain derivation (compare H89); flame

• ʼÂgêʼ (H89)

Occurrences

ʼĂgag occurs 8 times in 6 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (1), 1 Samuel (5)

• Numbers 24:7 — 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 (מֵֽאֲגַג֙), and his kingdom shall be exalted.
• 1 Samuel 15:8 — And he took Agag (אֲגַ֥ג) the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
• 1 Samuel 15:9 — But Saul and the people spared Agag (אֲגָ֗ג), 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 15:20 — And 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 (אֲגַג֙) the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
• 1 Samuel 15:32 — Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag (אֲגַג֙) the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• 1 Samuel 15:32 — Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag (אֲגַ֖ג) came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• 1 Samuel 15:32 — Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag (אֲגָ֔ג) said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
• 1 Samuel 15:33 — And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces (אֲגָ֛ג) before the LORD in Gilgal.