אֲגַגʼĂgag

proper name, masculine: king of Amalek (Numbers 24:7; 1 Samuel 15:8; 1 Samuel 15:9; 1 Samuel 15:20; 1 Samuel 15:32)

Pronunciation: ag-ag' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H90

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Numbers 24:7 Water will flow from their buckets; their offspring have all they need. Their king will be greater than Agag; their kingdom will be exalted.
  • 1 Samuel 15:8 He captured Agag, the Amalekite king, but completely destroyed everyone else.
  • 1 Samuel 15:9 Saul and his men spared Agag’s life and kept the best of the sheep and goats, the cattle, the fat calves, and the lambs—everything, in fact, that appealed to them. They destroyed only what was worthless or of poor quality.
  • 1 Samuel 15:20 “But I did obey the Lord,” Saul insisted. “I carried out the mission he gave me. I brought back King Agag, but I destroyed everyone else.
  • 1 Samuel 15:32 Then Samuel said, “Bring King Agag to me.” Agag arrived full of hope, for he thought, “Surely the worst is over, and I have been spared!”
  • 1 Samuel 15:33 But Samuel said, “As your sword has killed the sons of many mothers, now your mother will be childless.” And Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the Lord at Gilgal.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).