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# אֲגַם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H98

**troubled pool** — used 9 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

troubled pool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/98/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲגַם: troubled pool [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/98/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] troubled pool (Aramaic id., ܐܶܓܡܳܐ, As. agammu DlW)—א׳ abs. Is 35:7; cstr. 41:18 + 2t.; אֲגַמִּים Ex 8:1 + 2t.; אַגְמֵי Is 14:23; אַגְמֵיהֶם Ex 7:19— troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools or marshes, pl. א׳ מַיִם Is 14:23. any pool, pond, sg. א׳ מַיִם Is 41:18 ψ 107:35; 114:8; pl. without מַיִם Ex 7:19; 8:1 (P) Is 42:15. swamp-reed, rush (= אַגְמוֹן) Je 51:32.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: pools (4); a pool (2); pool (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.35/#tree)

יָשֵׂ֣ם מִ֭דְבָּר לַֽאֲגַם־מַ֑יִם וְאֶ֥רֶץ צִ֝יָּ֗ה לְמֹצָ֥אֵי מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* he.made a.wilderness into a.pool of.water and a.land of.dryness into springs of.water

*JPS 1917:* He turneth a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into watersprings.

[Psalms 114:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.114.8/#tree)

הַהֹפְכִ֣י הַצּ֣וּר אֲגַם־מָ֑יִם חַ֝לָּמִ֗ישׁ לְמַעְיְנוֹ־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* \[who\] turned the rock a.pool of.water flint into a spring of.water

*JPS 1917:* Who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a fountain of waters.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/98.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/98/): 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).