pious, the father of Agur (Pr 30:1). Nothing is known of him.

Related to Hebrew yikkah, "obedience." Father of Agur. (See AGUR.) Hitzig translated Pr 30:1, with a conjectural reading, "son of her whose obedience is Masse," i.e. the queen of Masse! (Ge 25:14; 1Ch 1:30; 4:41-43). Thus Agur and Lemuel are brothers (Pr 31:1), sons of the queen of Masse in Arabia, the region which he conjectures the Simeonites conquered in Hezekiah's time. Bunsen makes Jakeh a proper name, "son of Jakeh the man of Massa."

Father of Agur, the author of the proverbs contained in Pr 30.

Ja'keh

Father of Agur, whose 'words' are in Proverbs 30.

Ja'keh

(pious). [PROVERBS, BOOK OF]

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