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# אֲגַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H102

**band** — used 7 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

band [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/102/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲגַף: band, army [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/102/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] band, army (loan-word, orig. wing of army; As. agappu, Aramaic אגף, wing. Others, fr. גפף, Sta§ 256 b)—All Ez. & all pl. (or du.?) אֲגַפֶּיךָ Ez 38:9; 39:4; אֲגַפָּיו 12:14 + 3 textual; אֲגַפֶּיהָ 38:6 (all c. כָּל־ exc. 38:22)—bands, armies of king of Judah Ez 12:14; 17:21; hordes (RV) of Gog 38:9, 22; 39:4; specif. of גֹּמֶר 38:6; of תּוֹגַרְמָה ib.

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

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.38.6/#tree)

גֹּ֚מֶר וְכָל־אֲגַפֶּ֔יהָ בֵּ֚ית תּֽוֹגַרְמָ֔ה יַרְכְּתֵ֥י צָפ֖וֹן וְאֶת־כָּל־אֲגַפָּ֑יו עַמִּ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים אִתָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* Gomer and all troops its the.house of.Togarmah \[the\].remotest.parts of.\[the\].north and (et) all troops its peoples many \[will be\].with.you

*JPS 1917:* Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his bands; even many peoples with thee.

[Ezekiel 12:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.12.14/#tree)

וְכֹל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר סְבִיבֹתָ֥יו עֶזְר֛וֹ וְכָל־אֲגַפָּ֖יו אֱזָרֶ֣ה לְכָל־ר֑וּחַ וְחֶ֖רֶב אָרִ֥יק אַחֲרֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and all \[those\].who \[are\].around him help his and all troops his I.will.disperse to every wind and a.sword I.will.draw after them

*JPS 1917:* And I will disperse toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his troops; and I will draw out the sword after them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/102.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/102/): 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).