What does «Agag» mean in Spanish?
- Biblical character from the book of Samuel, king of the Amalekites, defeated by Saul, and quartered before a decree of Yahweh. The rabbis teach that the Jews took revenge on Agag for the cruelties they had suffered at the hands of the Amalekites, who, to mock the Israelites, their God and the rite of circumcision, mutilated all the Jews who fell into their power. Samuel, they say, treated Agag in the same way. According to some authorities, Agag's death, described in the Bible by the unusual word va-yeshassef ("cut in pieces," I Samuel 15:33), occurred in a far crueler manner than the word denotes.