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Haggai

American  
[hag-ee-ahy, hag-ahy] / ˈhæg iˌaɪ, ˈhæg aɪ /
Douay Bible, Aggeus

noun

  1. a Minor Prophet of the 6th century b.c.

  2. a book of the Bible bearing his name. Hag.


Haggai British  
/ ˈhæɡeɪˌaɪ /

noun

  1. a Hebrew prophet, whose oracles are usually dated between August and December of 520 bc

  2. the book in which these oracles are contained, chiefly concerned with the rebuilding of the Temple after the Exile

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Weinstein, 70, and Haggai, 73, were taking an early morning walk near their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz on the morning of Oct.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

Ms. Haggai’s husband, Gadi Haggai, had also been listed as a hostage but the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum announced last week that he, too, was killed in the attacks.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2023

The latest disclosed death was that of a 73-year-old dual citizen of Israel and the United States, Gadi Haggai.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

He said he grieves for the Haggai family, and called their suffering "intolerable".

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2023

He tells us, however, that the subject of his discourses, delivered daily, were the prophecies of Haggai, which he found to be "proper for the time."

From Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets by George Reid

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