Agag
(pronounced /ˈeɪɡæɡ/) (Hebrew: אגג ʼĂḡāḡ) was the king of the
Amalekites, mentioned by Balaam in Numbers xxiv.7 in a way
that gives probability to the conjecture that the name was a
standing title of the kings of Amalek. The name or title may
mean "flame" in ancient West Semitic.
Another Amalekite ruler named Agag was taken alive by King
Saul...
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a'-gag ('aghagh, or 'aghagh, meaning unknown, possibly
"violent," BDB): A name, or title, applied to the king of the
Amalekites, like Abimelech in Philistia and Pharaoh in Egypt.
It is used of two of these kings: (1) A king of Amalek,
mentioned by Balaam (Nu 24:7) in his blessing of Israel; (2) A
later king, in the days of King Saul (1 Sam 15)...
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1. A king of the Amalekites
Nu 24:7
-2. A king of the Amalekites, taken prisoner by Saul, and
killed by Samuel
1Sa 15:8,33...
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(flame), possibly the title of the kings of Amalek, like
Pharaoh of Egypt. One king of this name is mentioned in Nu
24:7 and another in 1Sam 15:8,9,20,32
The latter was the king of the Amalekites, whom Saul
spared contrary to Jehovah's well-known will. Ex 17:14; De
25:17 For this act of disobedience Samuel was commissioned to
declare to Saul ...
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flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as "Pharaoh"
was
of the Egyptian. (1.) A king of the Amalekites
referred to by
Balaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the
Exodus.
(2.) Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared
unlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp
of Saul
ordered, in retributive justice (Judg. 1), ...
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("fiery one"; compare Arabic "burn".) A common title of the
Amalekite kings; as Pharaoh of the Egyptian. Numbers 24:7
implies their greatness at that time. Saul's sparing the Agag
of his time (1 Samuel 15:32) contrary to God's command, both
then and from the first (Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 25:17-19),
because of Amalek's having intercepted Isr...
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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....
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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....
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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....
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