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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 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - [fn] And the LORD said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, 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 turns a desert into pools of water,
a parched land into springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 114:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:8 - who turns the rock into a pool of water,
the flint into a spring of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “And I will make it a possession of the hedgehog,[fn] and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 - the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 - I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the valleys.
I will make the wilderness a pool of water,
and the dry land springs of water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 - the fords have been seized,
the marshes are burned with fire,
and the soldiers are in panic.
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