אֲגַם
pool
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 3 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 3 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (22%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H98 appears — 9 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 2 verses
- Exodus 7:19 אַגְמֵי/הֶ֗ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their streams, and over their pools, and over all their ponds of water, that they may become blood; and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
- Exodus 8:5 הָ/אֲגַמִּ֑ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Stretch forth your hand with your rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.'"
Psalms 2 verses
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 14:23 וְ/אַגְמֵי conj + n c mp cs I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says Yahweh of Hosts.
- Isaiah 35:7 לַ/אֲגַ֔ם prep + n c ms The glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
- Isaiah 41:18 לַ/אֲגַם prep + n c ms cs I will open rivers on the bare heights, and springs in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
- Isaiah 42:15 וַ/אֲגַמִּ֖ים conj + n c mp I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun אגם centers on the idea of “pool.” Its meaning spans more than one sense — see its full sense range. It appears 9 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Isaiah (44%), then Exodus and Psalms. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 7:19. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H98 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 22%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 22%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pools 2×, Standing 2×
- American Standard Version: Pool 3×, Pools 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pool 3×, Marshes 2×, Ponds 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pool 3×, Pools 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H98 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H98 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H98 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H98 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. troubled or muddy (gloomy) pools or marshes, pl. א׳ מַיִם Is 14:23. e.g. Isaiah 14:23
- 2. any pool, pond, sg. א׳ מַיִם Is 41:18 ψ 107:35; 114:8; pl. without מַיִם Ex 7:19; 8:1 (P) Is 42:15. e.g. Isaiah 41:18
- 3. swamp-reed, rush (= אַגְמוֹן) Je 51:32. e.g. Jeremiah 51:32
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.[m.] troubled pool (Aramaic id., ܐܶܓܡܳܐ, As. agammu DlW)—א׳ abs. Is 35:7; cstr. 41:18 + 2t.; אֲגַמִּים Ex 8:1 + 2t.; אַגְמֵי Is 14:23; אַגְמֵיהֶם Ex 7:19—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water)
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲגַם I
- to be bent, whence to be in grief. Targ. Ps. CXIX, 28.
אֲגַם II
- v. foreg. a. anything bending and peeling, whence
- 1. leek, or leek-like plants, opp. to שחת young grain &c. Kidd. 62ᵇ this refers only to shaḥath אבל בא׳ לא but not to ăgam. Ib. מאי משמע דהאי א׳ לישנא דבוצלנא הוא (Ar. דבוצלא) what proof have you that ăgam in this case has the meaning of onion-plants? (Answ. ref. to אגמון Is. LVIII, 5). e.g. Isaiah 58:5
- 2. (b. h.) reed, reed-land (juncetum), dwelling places of wild beasts, opp. שָׂדֶה cultivated land. Taan. 22ᵃ
אַגָּם
- (גמם) a field which requires clearing in order to be made arable, uncleared ground containing roots of trees &c. Ab. Zar. 38ᵃ הצית את האור בא׳ set fire to an uncleared field. Y. ib. II, 44ᵈ bot. א׳ תמרים a field on which palms stood, the roots of which must be grubbed up.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H98 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אֲגַם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 114:8 | 1 |
| אַגְמֵי/הֶ֗ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 7:19 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲגַמִּ֑ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 8:5 | 1 |
| הָ/אֲגַמִּ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:32 | 1 |
| וְ/אַגְמֵי | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 14:23 | 1 |
| וַ/אֲגַמִּ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Isaiah 42:15 | 1 |
| לַ/אֲגַ֔ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 35:7 | 1 |
| לַ/אֲגַם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 41:18 | 1 |
| לַֽ/אֲגַם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 107:35 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H98, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
