Bible Names

Agabus: meaning of the name

Agabus means “a locust; the father's joy or feast.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Agabus in Hebrew and Greek

Ἄγαβος G13

Ágabos — Agabus, an Israelite

of Hebrew origin (compare H02285);

Who named Agabus in the Bible

Agabus in Scripture

“Agabus” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 11:28

    And 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 days of Claudius Cesar.

  • Acts 21:10

    And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judea a certain prophet, named Agabus.