aguda · bunch; band; vault

What it means

aguda (אֲגֻדָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bunch; band; vault”.

Bunch, bundle. In other passages, a band of men (2 Samuel 2:25), the bands of a yoke (Isaiah 58:6), or the vault of the heavens (Amos 9:6).

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. Several things tied together.
2. The straps or bonds that tie, like those of a yoke.
3. A group of people gathered with a common purpose.
4. The vault YHWH stretched over the earth, like a roof.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• arch ×1
• band ×1
• bunch ×1
• straps ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• Isaiah×1
• Amos×1

• Exodus 12:22

  Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood that is in the bowl. As for you, none shall go out of the door of his house until morning.

• 2 Samuel 2:25

  The sons of Benjamin gathered behind Abner and became one band, and they stood on the top of a hill.

• Isaiah 58:6

  Is this not the fast that I choose: to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, and to set free the crushed, and that you break every yoke?

• Amos 9:6

  the one who builds in the heavens his upper chambers, and has founded his arch on the earth; the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: YHWH is his name.