agaf · troops, hordes

What it means

agaf (אַגָּף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “troops, hordes”.

Wings of an army; in the plural, its troops or hordes.

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. The bands of soldiers that go with a king or a people to war.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezekiel 12:14

  And all who are around him as his help and all his troops I will scatter to every wind, and a sword I will unsheathe after them.

• Ezekiel 17:21

  And all his fugitives, with all his troops, by the sword will fall, and those who remain to every wind will be scattered; and you will know that I, YHWH, have spoken.’

• Ezekiel 38:6

  Gomer and all its troops, Beth-togarmah from the farthest parts of the north, and all its troops, many peoples with you.

• Ezekiel 38:9

  And you will go up; like a storm you will come; like a cloud to cover the land you will be, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.

• Ezekiel 38:22

  And I will enter into judgment with him with pestilence and with blood; and torrential rain, and hailstones, fire, and sulfur I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him.

• Ezekiel 39:4

  On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops, and the peoples that are with you; to the bird of prey, the bird of every wing, and to the animals of the field I have given you as food.

And 1 more times.