אֲגֻדָּהʼăguddâh

band

Pronunciation: ag-ood-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H92

Meanings

1. bands, thongs (Isaiah 58:6)

2. bunch (Exodus 12:22)

3. band (2 Samuel 2:25)

4. vault (Amos 9:6)

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 12:22 Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning.
  • 2 Samuel 2:25 Abner’s troops from the tribe of Benjamin regrouped there at the top of the hill to take a stand.
  • Isaiah 58:6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.
  • Amos 9:6 The Lord’s home reaches up to the heavens, while its foundation is on the earth. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!

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).