Definition of Haggai

1. Noun. A Hebrew minor prophet.

Exact synonyms: Aggeus
Generic synonyms: Prophet

2. Noun. An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity.
Exact synonyms: Aggeus, Book Of Haggai
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Nebiim, Prophets

Definition of Haggai

1. Proper noun. A book of the Old Testament of the Bible and the Tanakh. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haggai

Hafnia
Haftarah
Haftorah
Hag.
Hagada
Haganah
Hagar
Hagedorn needle
Hageman
Hageman factor
Hagemann factor
Hagerstown
Haggada
Haggadah
Haggai
Hagia Sophia
Hagiographa
Haglund's deformity
Haglund's disease
Hagueite
Hagueites
Hagåtña
Hahira
Hahn
Hahn's oxine reagent
Hahnemannian
Hahnemannians
Haida
Haida Gwaii

Literary usage of Haggai

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"1-5; though there is no trace in either haggai or Zechariah that the foundations had ... haggai speaks as though the fault was that of the Jews themselves, ..."

2. The History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882)
"^g^ month Zechariah joined him; in4 the ninth month, on the four-and-twentieth day, haggai delivered his two farewell messages, and then once more6 Bc 6*0, ..."

3. The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text by Jewish Publication Society of America, Max Leopold Margolis (1917)
"haggai haggai 1 IN the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by haggai the prophet ..."

4. History of the Hebrews: Their Political, Social and Religious Development by Frank Knight Sanders (1914)
"THE APPEALS OF THE PROPHETS, haggai AND ZECHARIAH, TO THEIR COUNTRYMEN TO BUILD ... The Exhortations of haggai. 2. November, 520 BC "This Temple will far ..."

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