H98 - אֲגַם (ʼăgam)

H98 אֲגַם (ʼăgam) ag-am'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

pool

Strong's Definition

a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds

Derivation: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water);

KJV Usage: pond, pool, standing (water).

TWOT Reference: 18a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) pool, troubled pool

1a) troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes

1b) any pool, pond

1c) swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3041

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) pool, troubled pool 1a) troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes 1b) any pool, pond 1c) swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אֲגַם ăgam BDB Definition: 1) pool, troubled pool 1a) troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools, marshes 1b) any pool, pond 1c) swamp reeds, reeds, rush(es) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water) Same Word by TWOT Number: 18a Total KJV Occurrences: 9

Bible Occurrences (9)

7:19 8:5

107:35 114:8

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

51:32

Exodus 7:19

And the LORD said to Moses, Tell... Aaron, Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt— over their rivers... [and] canals... and ponds and all the reservoirs— that they may become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.

Exodus 8:5

And the LORD said to Moses, Tell... Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers and canals... and ponds, and cause the frogs... to come up onto the land of Egypt.

Isaiah 14:23

I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands...; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction, declares the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 35:7

The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass [and] reeds and papyrus.

Isaiah 41:18

I will open rivers on the barren heights, and fountains in the middle of the valleys. I will turn the desert into a pool of water, and the dry land into flowing springs....

Isaiah 42:15

I will lay waste the mountains and hills and dry up all their vegetation. I will turn the rivers into dry land and drain the marshes.

Jeremiah 51:32

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire..., and the soldiers... are terrified.