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Agabus in Wikipedia

(Greek: Ἄγαβος) was an early follower of Christianity mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles as a prophet. He is traditionally remembered as one of the Seventy Disciples described in Luke 10:1-24 . According to Acts 11:27-28 , he was one of a group of prophets who came to Antioch from Jerusalem. While there he predicted a severe famine that the...

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Agabus in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

ag'-a-bus (Agabos): A Christian prophet of Jerusalem, twice mentioned in Acts. (1) In Acts 11:27 f, we find him at Antioch foretelling "a great famine over all the world," "which," adds the historian, "came to pass in the days of Claudius." This visit of Agabus to Antioch took place in the winter of 43-44 AD, and was the means of urging the A...

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Agabus in Naves Topical Bible

A prophet Ac 11:28; 21:10...

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Agabus in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(a locust), a Christian prophet in the apostolic age, mentioned in Ac 11:28 and Acts 21:10 He predicted, Ac 11:28 that a famine would take place in the reign of Claudius. Josephus mentions a famine which prevailed in Judea in the reign of Claudius, and swept away many of the inhabitants. (In Ac 21:10 we learn that Agabus and Paul met at Caesa...

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Agabus in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a "prophet," probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28). Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the bonds and affliction that awaited him at Jerusalem should he persist in going thither (Acts 21:10-12)....

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Agabus in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(from Hebrew agab, "he loved".) A Christian prophet (Acts 9:28; Acts 21:10). He came from Judaea to Antioch while Paul and Barnabas were there, and foretold the famine which occurred the next year in Israel (for a Jew would mean the Jewish world, by "throughout all the world.".) Josephus records that Helena, queen of Adiabene, a proselyte then...

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Agabus Scripture - Acts 11:28

And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar....

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Agabus Scripture - Acts 21:10

And as we tarried [there] many days, there came down from Judaea a certain prophet, named Agabus....

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