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# אֲגָג

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H90

**Agag** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Agag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/90/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲגָג: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/90/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (אֲגַג Nu 24:7) n.pr.m. (violent? As.agâgu DlW) king of Amalek 1 S 15:8, 9, 20, 32(×3), 33, also Nu 24:7 (E), as symbol of might; (Is א׳ then title? v. Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Agag (7); than Agag (1).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 15:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.15.8/#tree)

וַיִּתְפֹּ֛שׂ אֶת־אֲגַ֥ג מֶֽלֶךְ־עֲמָלֵ֖ק חָ֑י וְאֶת־כָּל־הָעָ֖ם הֶחֱרִ֥ים לְפִי־חָֽרֶב׃

*Word for word:* and he.seized (et) Agag the.king of.Amalek alive and (et) all the people he.totally.destroyed to.\[the\] mouth of.\[the\].sword

*JPS 1917:* And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

[Numbers 24:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.24.7/#tree)

יִֽזַּל־מַ֙יִם֙ מִדָּ֣לְיָ֔ו וְזַרְע֖וֹ בְּמַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וְיָרֹ֤ם מֵֽאֲגַג֙ מַלְכּ֔וֹ וְתִנַּשֵּׂ֖א מַלְכֻתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it.will.flow water from buckets its and offspring its \[will be\].in.waters many and he.will.be.high more than.Agag king its and it.will.be.exalted kingdom its

*JPS 1917:* Water shall flow from his branches, and his seed shall be in many waters; and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/90.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/90/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).