agam · pool, marsh

What it means

agam (אֲגַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pool, marsh”.

Pool, pond of still water; also reeds that grow in marshes.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A pool of still water that forms in low ground.
2. The tall plants growing in still water.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• pool ×4
• pools ×4
• marshes ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×1

• Exodus 7:19

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their canals, over their pools, and over all the reservoirs of their water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

• Exodus 8:5

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.’”

• Psalms 107:35

  He turns a wilderness into a pool of water, and a dry land into springs of water.

• Psalms 114:8

  who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of water.

• Isaiah 14:23

  “And I will make it a possession for the hedgehog and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 35:7

  And the burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the abode of jackals, its lair, grass will become reed and papyrus.

• Isaiah 41:18

  I will open on the bare heights rivers, and in the midst of the broad valleys springs; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and dry land into outlets of water.

• Isaiah 42:15

  I will lay waste mountains and hills, and all their vegetation I will dry up; and I will turn rivers into coastlands, and the pools I will dry up.

• Jeremiah 51:32

  and the fords are seized, and the marshes they have burned with fire, and the men of war are terrified.