Agag
Agag 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 after destroying the Amalekites (I Sam. xv.). His life was spared by Saul and the
Israelites took the best of the sheep, cattle, fat calves and lambs from the Amalekites. It is possible that Agag was a title similar to the Egyptians' "Pharoah", the Roman "Caesers", or today's 'Mr. President'.
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Agag
roof; upper floor
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock.
About
Agag
(flame), possibly the title of the kings of Amalek, like Pharaoh of Egypt. One king of this name is mentioned in (Numbers 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. (Exodus 17:14; 25:17) For this act of disobedience Samuel was commissioned to declare to Saul his rejection, and he himself sent for Agag and cut him in pieces. (B.C. about 1070.) See: Samuel. Haman is called the Agagite in (Esther 3:1,10; 8:3,5) The Jews consider him a descendant of Agag the Amalekite.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) , by William Smith.
About
Agag
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), to be brought out and cut in pieces (1 Sam. 15:8-33. Comp. Ex. 17:11; Num. 14:45).