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Strong H902 sensesאֲגָג

Agag

Transliteration
'ăgag
Pronunciation
ag-ag'

Meaning of the name

Agag = "I will overtop"

The 2 senses of Strong H90

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H90 appears in 6 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. Amalekite king captured and killed by SamuelH90H5 verses · 1 Samuel
  2. King mentioned in Balaam's oracle about IsraelH90G1 verse · Numbers

General definition

Of uncertain derivation (compare H89);
flame;
{Agag} a title of Amalekitish kings: - Agag.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • agag6

First verses

  1. Numbers 24:7
    He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
  2. 1 Samuel 15:8
    And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
  3. 1 Samuel 15:9
    But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
  4. 1 Samuel 15:20
    And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
  5. 1 Samuel 15:32
    Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.
  6. 1 Samuel 15:33
    And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.