God (Lamentations 3:33), and will result in the everlasting good of his
people (2 Corinthians 4:16-18) in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:35-39).
- AGABUS a “prophet,” probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ.
He prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28).
Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the
bonds and affliction that awaited him at Jerusalem should he persist in
going thither (Acts 21:10-12). - 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
(Numbers 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 (Judges 1), to be brought out and cut in pieces (1 Samuel 15:8-33.
Comp. Exodus 17:11; Numbers 14:45).
- AGAGITE a name applied to Haman and also to his father (Esther 3:1,
10; 8:3, 5). Probably it was equivalent to Amalekite. - AGATE (Hebrews shebo), a precious stone in the breast-plate of the high
priest (Exodus 28:19; 39:12), the second in the third row. This may be the
agate properly so called, a semi-transparent crystallized quartz, probably
brought from Sheba, whence its name. In Isaiah 54:12 and Ezekiel 27:16,
this word is the rendering of the Hebrew cadcod, which means “ruddy,”
and denotes a variety of minutely crystalline silica more or less in bands of
different tints.
This word is from the Greek name of a stone found in the river Achates in
Sicily.