אֲגָג
a.gag
A man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Num.24.7
§ Agag = "I will overtop"
king of Amalek, spared by Saul but slain by Samuel
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Concordance 6 verses
- Numbers 24:7 מֵֽאֲגַג֙
Water will flow from his buckets, and his seed will have abundant water. His king will be greater than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted.
- 1 Samuel 15:8 אֲגַ֥ג
He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
- 1 Samuel 15:9 אֲגָ֗ג
Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
- 1 Samuel 15:20 אֲגַג֙
“But I did obey the LORD,” Saul replied. “I went on the mission that the LORD gave me. I brought back Agag king of Amalek and devoted the Amalekites to destruction.
- 1 Samuel 15:32 אֲגַג֙אֲגַ֖גאֲגָ֔ג
Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”
- 1 Samuel 15:33 אֲגָ֛ג
But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
