Agabus
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a locust; the father's joy or feast
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AGABUS.A Christian prophet of Jerusalem (Act_11:27 ff; Act_21:10 f.), whose prediction of a famine over the (civilized) world occasioned the sending of alms from Antioch to Jerusalem. The famine happened, not simultaneously in all countries, in Claudius reign (Suetonius, Tacitus). Agabus also foretold St. Pauls imprisonment, by binding his feet and hands with the Apostles girdle (cf. Jer_13:1 ff.).
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(from Hebrew agab, "he loved".) A Christian prophet (Act_9:28; Act_21:10). He came from Judaea to Antioch while Paul and Barnabas were there, and foretold the famine which occurred the next year in Palestine (for a Jew would mean the Jewish world, by "throughout all the world.".) Josephus records that Helena, queen of Adiabene, a proselyte then at Jerusalem, imported provisions from Egypt and Cyprus, wherewith she saved many from starvation. The famine was in the procuratorship of Cuspius Fadus and Tiberius Alexander, A.D. 44, and lasted four years. In the wider sense of "the world," as the prophecy fixes on no year, but "in the days of Claudius Caesar," it may include other famines elsewhere in his reign, one in Greece, two in Rome.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ag'abus. (a locust). A Christian prophet in the apostolic age, mentioned in Act_11:28 and Act_21:10. He predicted, Act_11:28, that a famine would take place in the reign of Claudius. Josephus mentions a famine which prevailed in Judea in the reign of Claudius, and swept away many of the inhabitants. (In Act_21:10, we learn that Agabus and Paul met at Caesarea some time after this ? Editor).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a prophet, and as the Greeks say, one of the seventy disciples of our Saviour. He foretold that there would be a great famine over all the earth; which came to pass accordingly, under the emperor Claudius, in the fourth year of his reign, A.D. 44, Act_11:28.
Ten years after this, as St. Paul was going to Jerusalem, and had already landed at Caesarea, in Palestine, the same prophet, Agabus, arrived there, and coming to visit St. Paul and his company, he took this Apostle's girdle, and binding himself hand and feet, he said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles, Act_21:10. We know no other particulars of the life of Agabus. The Greeks say that he suffered martyrdom at Antioch.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
ag?a-bus (Ἂγαβος, Ágabos): A Christian prophet of Jerusalem, twice mentioned in Acts. (1) In Act_11:27, we find him at Antioch foretelling ?a great famine over all the world,? ?which,? adds the historian, ?came to pass in the days of Claudius.? This visit of Agabus to Antioch took place in the winter of 43-44 ad, and was the means of urging the Antiochian Christians to send relief to the brethren in Judea by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Two points should be noted. (a) The gift of prophet's here takes the form of prediction. The prophet's chief function was to reveal moral and spiritual truth, to ?forth-tell? rather than to ?foretell?; but the interpretation of God's message sometimes took the form of predicting events. (b) The phrase ?over all the world? (practically synonymous with the Roman Empire) must be regarded as a rhetorical exaggeration if strictly interpreted as pointing to a general and simultaneous famine. But there is ample evidence of severe periodical famines in various localities in the reign of Claudius (e.g. Suet Claud. 18; Tac. Ann. xii.43), and of a great dearth in Judea under the procurators Cuspius Fadus and Tiberius Alexander, 44-48 ad (Ant., XX, ii, 6; v, 2), which probably reached its climax circa 46 ad. (2) In Act_21:10 we find Agabus at Caesarea warning Paul, by a vivid symbolic action (after the manner of Old Testament prophets; compare Jer_13:1; Ezek 3; 4) of the imprisonment and suffering he would undergo if he proceeded to Jerusalem. (3) In late tradition Agabus is included in lists of the seventy disciples of Christ.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ag?abus, the name of 'a prophet,' supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He, with others, came from Judea to Antioch, while Paul and Barnabas (A.D. 43) were there, and announced an approaching famine, which actually occurred the following year. Some writers suppose that the famine was general; but most modern commentators unite in understanding that the terms of the original apply not to the whole world, nor even to all the Roman empire, but, as in Luk_2:1, to Judea only, and that the reference is to that famine which, in the fourth year of Claudius, overspread Palestine. The poor Jews, in general, were then relieved by the Queen of Adiabene, who sent to purchase corn in Egypt for them; and for the relief of the Christians in that country contributions were raised by the brethren at Antioch, and conveyed to Jerusalem by Paul and Barnabas (Act_11:27-30). Many years after, this same Agabus met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the sufferings which awaited him if he prosecuted his journey to Jerusalem.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Agabus
(῎Αγαβος; either from the Heb. חָגָב, a locust [which even occurs as a proper name, Ezr_2:46], or עִָגבְ, to love; Simon. Onom. N.T. 15, and Wolf, Cur. 2, 1167), the name of a prophet, supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ (Walch, De Agabo Vate, Jen. 1757, and in his Diss. ad Act. Ap. 2, 131 sq.). He, with others, came from Judaea to Antioch, while Paul and Barnabas (A.D. 43) were there, and announced an approaching famine, which actually occurred the following year (Act_11:27-28). Some writers suppose that the famine was general; but most modern commentators unite in understanding that the large terms of the original (ὄλην τὴν οἰκουμένην) apply not to the whole world, nor even to the whole Roman empire, but, as in Luk_2:1, to Judaea only.
Statements respecting four famines, which occurred in the reign of Claudius (Oros. 7:6; Euseb. Hist. Ecclesiastes 2, 8; Chron. Arm. 2, 269), are produced by the commentators who support this view (Wesseling, Observ. 1, 9, p. 28); and as all the countries put together would not make up a tenth part of even the Roman empire, they think it plain that the words must be understood to apply to that famine which, in the fourth year of Claudius (Suetonius, Claud. 18), overspread Palestine (see Kuinol, Comment. in loc.). The poor Jews, in general, were then relieved by the queen of Adiabene, who sent to purchase corn in Egypt for them (Josephus, Ant. 20, 2, 6; 5, 2); and for the relief of the Christians in that country contributions were raised by the brethren at Antioch, and conveyed to Jerusalem by Paul and Barnabas (Act_11:29-30). Many years after, this same Agabus met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the sufferings which awaited him if he prosecuted his journey to Jerusalem (Act_21:10-12), A.D. 55. (See Conybeare and Howsons St. Paul, 1, 127; 2, 233; Baumgarten, Apostelgeschichte, 1, 270 sq.; 2, 113.) The Greek Church assert that he suffered martyrdom at Antioch, and hold his festival on the 6th of March (Eichhorn, Bibl. d. bibl. Lit. 1, 22, 23; 6, 20).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AGABUS.A Christian prophet of Jerusalem (Act_11:27 ff; Act_21:10 f.), whose prediction of a famine over the (civilized) world occasioned the sending of alms from Antioch to Jerusalem. The famine happened, not simultaneously in all countries, in Claudius reign (Suetonius, Tacitus). Agabus also foretold St. Pauls imprisonment, by binding his feet and hands with the Apostles girdle (cf. Jer_13:1 ff.).
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(from Hebrew agab, "he loved".) A Christian prophet (Act_9:28; Act_21:10). He came from Judaea to Antioch while Paul and Barnabas were there, and foretold the famine which occurred the next year in Palestine (for a Jew would mean the Jewish world, by "throughout all the world.".) Josephus records that Helena, queen of Adiabene, a proselyte then at Jerusalem, imported provisions from Egypt and Cyprus, wherewith she saved many from starvation. The famine was in the procuratorship of Cuspius Fadus and Tiberius Alexander, A.D. 44, and lasted four years. In the wider sense of "the world," as the prophecy fixes on no year, but "in the days of Claudius Caesar," it may include other famines elsewhere in his reign, one in Greece, two in Rome.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ag'abus. (a locust). A Christian prophet in the apostolic age, mentioned in Act_11:28 and Act_21:10. He predicted, Act_11:28, that a famine would take place in the reign of Claudius. Josephus mentions a famine which prevailed in Judea in the reign of Claudius, and swept away many of the inhabitants. (In Act_21:10, we learn that Agabus and Paul met at Caesarea some time after this ? Editor).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
a prophet, and as the Greeks say, one of the seventy disciples of our Saviour. He foretold that there would be a great famine over all the earth; which came to pass accordingly, under the emperor Claudius, in the fourth year of his reign, A.D. 44, Act_11:28.
Ten years after this, as St. Paul was going to Jerusalem, and had already landed at Caesarea, in Palestine, the same prophet, Agabus, arrived there, and coming to visit St. Paul and his company, he took this Apostle's girdle, and binding himself hand and feet, he said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles, Act_21:10. We know no other particulars of the life of Agabus. The Greeks say that he suffered martyrdom at Antioch.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
ag?a-bus (Ἂγαβος, Ágabos): A Christian prophet of Jerusalem, twice mentioned in Acts. (1) In Act_11:27, we find him at Antioch foretelling ?a great famine over all the world,? ?which,? adds the historian, ?came to pass in the days of Claudius.? This visit of Agabus to Antioch took place in the winter of 43-44 ad, and was the means of urging the Antiochian Christians to send relief to the brethren in Judea by the hands of Barnabas and Saul. Two points should be noted. (a) The gift of prophet's here takes the form of prediction. The prophet's chief function was to reveal moral and spiritual truth, to ?forth-tell? rather than to ?foretell?; but the interpretation of God's message sometimes took the form of predicting events. (b) The phrase ?over all the world? (practically synonymous with the Roman Empire) must be regarded as a rhetorical exaggeration if strictly interpreted as pointing to a general and simultaneous famine. But there is ample evidence of severe periodical famines in various localities in the reign of Claudius (e.g. Suet Claud. 18; Tac. Ann. xii.43), and of a great dearth in Judea under the procurators Cuspius Fadus and Tiberius Alexander, 44-48 ad (Ant., XX, ii, 6; v, 2), which probably reached its climax circa 46 ad. (2) In Act_21:10 we find Agabus at Caesarea warning Paul, by a vivid symbolic action (after the manner of Old Testament prophets; compare Jer_13:1; Ezek 3; 4) of the imprisonment and suffering he would undergo if he proceeded to Jerusalem. (3) In late tradition Agabus is included in lists of the seventy disciples of Christ.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ag?abus, the name of 'a prophet,' supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He, with others, came from Judea to Antioch, while Paul and Barnabas (A.D. 43) were there, and announced an approaching famine, which actually occurred the following year. Some writers suppose that the famine was general; but most modern commentators unite in understanding that the terms of the original apply not to the whole world, nor even to all the Roman empire, but, as in Luk_2:1, to Judea only, and that the reference is to that famine which, in the fourth year of Claudius, overspread Palestine. The poor Jews, in general, were then relieved by the Queen of Adiabene, who sent to purchase corn in Egypt for them; and for the relief of the Christians in that country contributions were raised by the brethren at Antioch, and conveyed to Jerusalem by Paul and Barnabas (Act_11:27-30). Many years after, this same Agabus met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the sufferings which awaited him if he prosecuted his journey to Jerusalem.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Agabus
(῎Αγαβος; either from the Heb. חָגָב, a locust [which even occurs as a proper name, Ezr_2:46], or עִָגבְ, to love; Simon. Onom. N.T. 15, and Wolf, Cur. 2, 1167), the name of a prophet, supposed to have been one of the seventy disciples of Christ (Walch, De Agabo Vate, Jen. 1757, and in his Diss. ad Act. Ap. 2, 131 sq.). He, with others, came from Judaea to Antioch, while Paul and Barnabas (A.D. 43) were there, and announced an approaching famine, which actually occurred the following year (Act_11:27-28). Some writers suppose that the famine was general; but most modern commentators unite in understanding that the large terms of the original (ὄλην τὴν οἰκουμένην) apply not to the whole world, nor even to the whole Roman empire, but, as in Luk_2:1, to Judaea only.
Statements respecting four famines, which occurred in the reign of Claudius (Oros. 7:6; Euseb. Hist. Ecclesiastes 2, 8; Chron. Arm. 2, 269), are produced by the commentators who support this view (Wesseling, Observ. 1, 9, p. 28); and as all the countries put together would not make up a tenth part of even the Roman empire, they think it plain that the words must be understood to apply to that famine which, in the fourth year of Claudius (Suetonius, Claud. 18), overspread Palestine (see Kuinol, Comment. in loc.). The poor Jews, in general, were then relieved by the queen of Adiabene, who sent to purchase corn in Egypt for them (Josephus, Ant. 20, 2, 6; 5, 2); and for the relief of the Christians in that country contributions were raised by the brethren at Antioch, and conveyed to Jerusalem by Paul and Barnabas (Act_11:29-30). Many years after, this same Agabus met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of the sufferings which awaited him if he prosecuted his journey to Jerusalem (Act_21:10-12), A.D. 55. (See Conybeare and Howsons St. Paul, 1, 127; 2, 233; Baumgarten, Apostelgeschichte, 1, 270 sq.; 2, 113.) The Greek Church assert that he suffered martyrdom at Antioch, and hold his festival on the 6th of March (Eichhorn, Bibl. d. bibl. Lit. 1, 22, 23; 6, 20).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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