Agar
Agar
(Hebrew: wandering)
Handmaid of Sara (Genesis 16; 21; Galatians 4) by whom Abraham begot Ismael. After the birth of Isaac, Sara caused the expulsion of Agar and her son from the dwellings of the patriarch. The unfortunate woman determined to abandon the boy to death in the wilderness but hearkened to the angel who foretold his people as the progenitor of a great people, the Ismaelites.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Agar
(), a Graecized form (Gal 4:24-25) of the name HAGAR SEE HAGAR (q.v.).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Agar
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.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Agar
agar (, 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.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Agar
[A’gar] See HAGAR.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Agar
See Hagar
Hagar
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Agar
Agar (-gar). Gal 4:24. See Hagar.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Agar
A’gar. See Hagar.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
Agar
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.