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AGAGITE.—The designation of Haman (Est_3:1; Est_3:10; Est_8:3; Est_8:5; Est_9:24). Josephus (Ant. XI. vi. 5) calls him an Amalekite. The epithet in Esther indicates that, as Agag was Saul’s adversary, so Haman was the foe of this other Benjamite. The LXX [Note: Septuagint.] reads Bugaios, Est_3:1, Est_8:5, omits at Est_3:10, and at Est_9:24, EST 16:10 has Macedonian, a word of evil connotation after Antiochus Epiphanes.
J. Taylor.