Agag - flame, the usual title of the Amalekite kings, as "Pharaoh" was\nof the Egyptian. (1.) A king of the Amalekites referred to by\nBalaam (Num. 24:7). He lived at the time of the Exodus.
(2.) Another king of the Amalekites whom Saul spared\nunlawfully, but whom Samuel on his arrival in the camp of Saul\nordered, in retributive justice (Judg. 1), to be brought out and\ncut in pieces (1 Sam. 15:8-33. Comp. Ex. 17:11; Num. 14:45).
From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
