HAGGAI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Haggai mean? 

• HAGGAI (noun)
  The noun HAGGAI has 2 senses:

1. a Hebrew minor prophet

2. an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity

  Familiarity information: HAGGAI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAGGAI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Hebrew minor prophet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Aggeus; Haggai

Instance hypernyms:

prophet (someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Haggai which are concerned mainly with rebuilding the temples after the Babylonian Captivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Aggeus; Book of Haggai; Haggai

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Haggai" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Nebiim; Prophets (the second of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)