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Agabus

American  
[ag-uh-buhs] / ˈæg ə bəs /

noun

  1. a Christian prophet who predicted a great famine.


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The mouthpiece in King Jesus is one "Agabus the Decapolitan," writing at Alexandria near the end of the 1st Century A.D.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of them, Agabus, under the influence of the Spirit, told that a severe famine would come all through that part of the world, and this famine came when Claudius was emperor.

From The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman

And Agabus tells of a great famine coming.

From Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

There stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit, that there should be great dearth throughout all the world, which came to pass in the Emperor Claudius days.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

In which year there came to pass a most grievous famine in Syria, which is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles to have been foretold by the prophet Agabus.

From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede

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