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אֲגָגִי

a.ga.gi

Agagite

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Strong’s H91Proper name, a people group5 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

agagite5

In the text

Esther 3:1הָאֲגָגִי
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

אֲגָגִי adj.gent. of Haman (= Amalekite? so Jew. trad. & cf. Jos. Ant. xi.6.5)

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.