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Agag
Sign in to savethumb|''La mort d'Agag, illustration by Gustave Doré Agag (; ʾĂgāg'') is a Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king. It has been suggested that "Agag" was a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek, just as Pharaoh was used as a dynastic name for the ancient Egyptians. The etymology is uncertain, according to John L. McKenzie (1995), while Cox (1884) suggested "High."
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It sits within the topics Amalek, Book of Numbers people and Deaths by stabbing.
Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Gilgal
- Occupation
- monarch
- Image
- Samuel hakt Agag aan stukken, RP-P-OB-103.370.jpg
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- cause of death
- execution
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- last words
- אָכֵן סָר מַר הַמָּוֶת
- killed by
- Samuel
- manner of death
- extra-judicial killing
- Commons category
- Agag
- present in work
- 1 Samuel 15
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thumb|''La mort d'Agag, illustration by Gustave Doré Agag (; ʾĂgāg'') is a Northwest Semitic name or title applied to a biblical king. It has been suggested that "Agag" was a dynastic name of the kings of Amalek, just as Pharaoh was used as a dynastic name for the ancient Egyptians. The etymology is uncertain, according to John L. McKenzie (1995), while Cox (1884) suggested "High."
In the Torah, the expression "Its king higher than Agag, and its kingdom exalted" was uttered by Balaam in Numbers 24:7, in his third prophetic utterance, to describe a king of Israel who would be higher than the king of Amalek. This is understood to mean that Israel's king would take a higher position than even Amalek himself, and would exercise a wider authority. The writer uses an allusion to the literal significance of the word "Agag", meaning "high", to convey that the king of Israel would be "higher than High". A characteristic trait of biblical poetry is to use puns.
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