אֲגַג ʼĂgag

Hebrew · Strong's H90 · pronounced ag-ag' · used 8 times in 6 verses

Meaning

Agag, a title of Amalekitish kings

In the King James Version: Agag.

Derivation: or אֲגָג; of uncertain derivation (compare H89 (אָגֵא)); flame;

Numbers 24:7 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 He captured Agag king of Amalek alive, but devoted all the others to destruction with the sword.
1 Samuel 15:9 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 devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
1 Samuel 15:20 “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 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 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.