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 ( 1Samuel:15:8-33. Comp. Exodus:17:11; Numbers:14:45).
Agagite @ a name applied to Haman and also to his father Esther:3:1Esther:3:10Esther:8:3-5). Probably it was equivalent to Amalekite.
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