Agaba
Agaba
(, prob. i. q. Agzbus), one of the temple servants, whose sons returned from Babylon (1Es 5:30), evidently the HAGAB (q.v.) of the genuine text (Ezr 2:46).
Agaba
(), a fortress near Jerusalem, which Galesius, its governor, restored to Aristobulus, the son of Alexander Jannaeus (Josephus, Ant. 13, 24, 5). The place cannot well be identified on account of the various readings (see Hudsons ed. 1, 602, note), one of which () even seems to identify it with GABBATHA SEE GABBATHA (q.v.). It was perhaps the eminence of GIBEAH SEE GIBEAH (q.v.).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Agaba
aga-ba: A fortress in Judea. The first of 22 strong places which by its commander Galestus was given over to Aristobulus, the son of Alexander Janneus and Alexandra, when he (his mother, the queen, being dangerously ill) attempted to get control of the Judean government (Ant., XIII, xvi, 5).