How to Pronounce Haggai

What does Haggai mean?

Haggai means “feast; solemnity”.

Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.

Who was Haggai?

Festive, one of the twelve so-called minor prophets. He was the first of the three (Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who was about one hundred years later, being the other two) whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon. Scarcely anything is known of his personal history. He may have been one of the captives taken to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar. He began his ministry about sixteen years after the Return. The work of rebuilding the temple had been put a stop to through the intrigues of the Samaritans.

Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.

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