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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)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:19 - Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their [fn]streams, and over their pools H98 and over all their reservoirs of water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:5 - [fn]Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the [fn]streams and over the pools H98, and cause the frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:35 -

He makes a wilderness into a pool H98 of water

And a dry land into springs of water;

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 114:8 -

Who turned the rock into a pool H98 of water,

The flint into a spring of water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:23 - “I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps H98 of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of [fn]destruction,” declares Yahweh of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:7 -

Then the [fn]scorched land will become a pool H98

And the thirsty ground springs of water;

In the haunt of jackals, its resting place,

Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:18 -

“I will open rivers on the bare heights

And springs in the midst of the valleys;

I will make the wilderness a pool H98 of water

And the dry land fountains of water.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:15 -

“I will lay waste the mountains and hills

And dry up all their vegetation;

I will make the rivers into coastlands

And dry up the pools H98 of waters.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:32 -

The fords also have been seized,

And they have burned the marshes H98 with fire,

And the men of war are terrified.

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