a stranger; one that fears
(same as Hagar)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
AGAR.The sons of Agar are mentioned in Bar_3:23; they are called Hagarenes in Psa_83:6, and Hagrites in 1Ch_5:19-20; 1Ch_27:31. Their country lay east of Gilead.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A'gar. See Hagar.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
mount Sinai, so called, Gal_4:24-25. But this reading is doubtful, many MSS. having the verse, for this Sinai is a mountain of Arabia. Some critics however contend for the reading of the received text, and urge that Agar, which signifies a rocky mountain, is the Arabic name for Sinai.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.
ā?gar (Ἄγαρ, Agar). Found once in the Apocrypha in the Greek (Baruch 3:23) probably for the Old Testament Hagar, mother of Ishmael, whose children are mentioned with the merchants of Meran (Midian) and Teman. In 1Ch_5:10 the ?Hagarites? the King James Version, are located East of Gilead, and In the days of Saul were at war with the tribe of Reuben. See also 1Ch_5:19, 1Ch_5:20 and 1Ch_27:31. In Psa_83:6 the name of the same people is Hagarenes.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Agar
(ςΑγαρ), a Graecized form (Gal_4:24-25) of the name HAGAR SEE HAGAR (q.v.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.