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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

And Agabus tells of a great famine coming.

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

Agabus will not have been the only Jud�an prophet who visited them, especially after the "great tribulation" which befell "those in Jud�a."

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner

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 Sherman, Henry A.

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 Bede, Cuthbert