Strong H91אֲגָגִי
Agagite
- Transliteration
- 'ăgâgîy
- Pronunciation
- ag-aw-ghee'
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Person in Gentilic sense
Definition
Patrial or patronymic from H90; an Agagite or descendant (subject) of Agag: - Agagite.
Meaning of the name
Agagite = "I will overtop"
Detailed definition
Someone descended from Agag, a man living at the time of United Monarchy, first mentioned at 1Sa.15.8
Group of a.gag (אֲגָג "Agag" H90H)
Group of a.gag (אֲגָג "Agag" H90H)
In the biblical story
Agag
Amalekite king captured and killed by Samuel
Agag, king of the Amalekites, was spared by Saul but killed by Samuel. (1Sa.15.8,9,20,32,33)
In the Bible
Strong H91 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- agagite5
First verses
- Esther 3:1After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- Esther 3:10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
- Esther 8:3And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
- Esther 8:5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
- Esther 9:24Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;