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Lexicon :: Strong's H98 - 'ăḡam

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אֲגַם
Transliteration
'ăḡam
Pronunciation
ag-am'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root (meaning to collect as water)
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TWOT Reference: 18a

Strong’s Definitions

אֲגַם ʼăgam, ag-am'; from an unused root (meaning to collect as water); a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds:—pond, pool, standing (water).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H98 in the following manner: pools (6x), standing (2x), reeds (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H98 in the following manner: pools (6x), standing (2x), reeds (1x).

  1. pool, troubled pool

    1. troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes

    2. any pool, pond

    3. swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲגַם ʼăgam, ag-am'; from an unused root (meaning to collect as water); a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds:—pond, pool, standing (water).
STRONGS H98: Abbreviations
† אֲגַם noun [masculine] troubled pool (Aramaic id., axmgAe  , Assyrian agammu DlW) — א׳ absolute Isaiah 35:7; construct Isaiah 41:18 + 2 times; אֲגַמִּים Exodus 8:1 + 2 times; אַגְמֵי Isaiah 14:23; אַגְמֵיהֶם Exodus 7:19 —
1. troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools or marshes, plural מַיִם א׳ Isaiah 14:23.
2. any pool, pond, singular מַיִם א׳ Isaiah 41:18; Psalm 107:35; Psalm 114:8; plural without מַיִם Exodus 7:19; Exodus 8:1 (P) Isaiah 42:15.
3. swamp-reed, rush (= אַגְמוֺן) Jeremiah 51:32.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

7:19; 7:19; 8:1; 8:1

Psalms

107:35; 114:8

Isaiah

14:23; 14:23; 35:7; 41:18; 41:18; 42:15

Jeremiah

51:32

H98

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Strong's Number H98 matches the Hebrew אֲגַם ('ăḡam),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - The LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over the streams and canals, over the ponds and all the reservoirs—and they will turn to blood.’ Blood will be everywhere in Egypt, even in vessels[fn] of wood and stone.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the streams and canals and ponds, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 107:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 - He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:8 - who turned the rock into a pool, the hard rock into springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 - I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation; I will turn rivers into islands and dry up the pools.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 - the river crossings seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers terrified.”
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