Agur
(Hebrew: אגור בן יקה) was the compiler of a collection of
proverbs found in Proverbs 30 , which is sometimes known as
the Book of Agur or Sayings of Agur. The initial text of the
chapter runs as follows (JPS translation), and bears great
similarity to Isaiah 40:12-14......
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a'-gur ('aghur, seeming, from comparison with Arabic roots, to
mean either "hireling," or "collector," "gatherer"): One of
the contributors to Proverbs; his words being included in Prov
30. He takes an agnostic attitude toward God and transcendent
things, and in general the range of his thought, as compared
with that of other authors, is pedes...
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(a gatherer, i.e. together of wise men), The son of Jakeh, an
unknown Hebrew sage who uttered or collected the sayings of
wisdom recorded in Prov 30....
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gatherer; the collector, mentioned as author of the sayings in
Prov. 30. Nothing is known of him beyond what is there
recorded....
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From agar, "to collect." "The collector," a symbolical name,
like Ecclesiastes, "the preacher" or "assembler." Son of Jakeh
("obedience"); author of inspired counsels to Ithiel and Ucal
(Proverbs 30). Called "the prophecy;" rather "the weighty
utterance" (Hebrew massa), "burden." Hitzig imaginatively
makes him son of the queen of Massa, and br...
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The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, [even] the prophecy: the
man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,...
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