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Lexicon :: Strong's H90 - 'ăḡaḡ

Aa
אֲגַג
Transliteration
'ăḡaḡ
Pronunciation
ag-ag'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation, compare with אָגֵא (H89)
Strong’s Definitions

אֲגַג ʼĂgag, ag-ag'; or אֲגָג ʼĂgâg; of uncertain derivation (compare H89); flame; Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings:—Agag.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H90 in the following manner: Agag (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H90 in the following manner: Agag (8x).

  1. Agag = "I will overtop"

    1. king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲגַג ʼĂgag, ag-ag'; or אֲגָג ʼĂgâg; of uncertain derivation (compare H89); flame; Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings:—Agag.
STRONGS H90: Abbreviations
† אֲגָג, (אֲגַג Numbers 24:7) proper name, masculine (violent ? Assyrian agâgu DlW) king of Amalek 1 Samuel 15:8, 9, 20, 32 (3 times in verse); 1 Samuel 15:33, also Numbers 24:7 (E), as symbol of might; (Is א׳ then title ? see Di).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

24:7; 24:7

1 Samuel

15:8; 15:9; 15:20; 15:32; 15:33

H90

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H90 matches the Hebrew אֲגַג ('ăḡaḡ),
which occurs 8 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:7 - Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:8 - He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:20 - And Saul said, Truly, I have done the orders of the Lord and have gone the way the Lord sent me; I have taken Agag, the king of Amalek, and have given the Amalekites up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:32 - Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:33 - And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.
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