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Related to Hebrew yikkah, "obedience." Father of Agur. (See AGUR.) Hitzig translated , with a conjectural reading, "son of her whose obedience is Masse," i.e. the queen of Masse! (; ; -43). Thus Agur and Lemuel are brothers (), sons of the queen of Masse in Arabia, the region which he conjectures the Simeonites conquered in Hezekiah's time. Bunsen makes Jakeh a proper name, "son of Jakeh the man of Massa."