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title: אֲגָגִי — Agagite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אֲגָגִי (91), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: Agagite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אֲגָגִי

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«אֲגָגִי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Agagite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 91 · **BDB:** אֲגָגִי

### Glosses

Agagite (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Agagite [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/91/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj.gent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/91/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. of Haman (= Amalekite? so Jew. trad. \& cf. Jos.Ant. xi, 6, 5 Est 3:1, 10; 8:3, 5; 9:24

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אֲגָגִי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/91/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 3:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.3.10/)

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וַיָּ֧סַר הַמֶּ֛לֶךְ אֶת־טַבַּעְתּ֖וֹ מֵעַ֣ל יָד֑וֹ וַֽיִּתְּנָ֗הּ לְהָמָ֧ן בֶּֽן־הַמְּדָ֛תָא הָאֲגָגִ֖י צֹרֵ֥ר הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.removed the king (et) signet-ring his from on hand his and he gave.it to Haman the.son of.Hammedatha the Agagite the.harasser of the.Jews

*JPS 1917:* And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

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[Esther 9:24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.24/)

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כִּי֩ הָמָ֨ן בֶּֽן־הַמְּדָ֜תָא הָֽאֲגָגִ֗י צֹרֵר֙ כָּל־הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים חָשַׁ֥ב עַל־הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים לְאַבְּדָ֑ם וְהִפִּ֥יל פּוּר֙ ה֣וּא הַגּוֹרָ֔ל לְהֻמָּ֖ם וּֽלְאַבְּדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) Haman the.son of.Hammedatha the Agagite the.harasser of.all the Jews he.had.planned on the Jews to destroy them and he.had.cast Pur that \[is\].the lot to disturb them and to destroy them

*JPS 1917:* because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast pur, that is, the lot, to discomfit them, and to destroy them;

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