Bible Dictionary: Agade

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

AGADE

ag'-a-de: Ancient name for Akkad (or ACCAD, which see), one of the chief cities of Babylonia (Genesis 10:10), and the capital city of Sargon, who lived and ruled in Babylonia circa 3500 B.C. Together with Shunir it formed part of one of the royal titles: "kings of Shunir (Sumer) and Accad."

Library

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... The tradition which attributes to Sargon of Agade, and to his son Istaramsin, the
subjection of the people of the Amanos and the Orontes, probably contains but ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Babylonia and Assyria
... While the Sumerian princes were engaged in mutual war, the Semites were occupying
northern Babylonia, and establishing their power in the city of Agade or Akkad ...
/.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Appendices
... Me-sa. Enne-Ugun. Alusarsid. Lugal-khassi. DYNASTY OF AGADE (AKKAD). Sargon or
Sargani-sar-ali, BC3800. Naram-Sin, his son, BC3750. Bingani-sar-ali, his son. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/appendices.htm

Ancient Chaldaea
... the god," the "residence of life," the only metropolis of the Euphrates region of
which posterity never lost a reminiscence; Kishu, Kuta, Agade;** and lastly ...
/.../chapter iancient chaldaea.htm

The Medes and the Second Chaldaean Empire
... on the destinies of the world was explained by examples borrowed from the Annals
of world-renowned conquerors, such as Naramsin and Sargon of Agade; then there ...
/.../chapter iiithe medes and the.htm

Chaldaean Civilization
... account of his life: "My father was unknown, my mother was a princess;" and it was,
indeed, from his mother that he inherited his rights to the crown of Agade. ...
/.../chapter iiichaldaean civilization.htm

The Assyrian Revival and the Struggle for Syria
... in the memory of the people, as a warning to the sovereign who should attempt the
old hazardous enterprise, and repeat the exploits of Sargon of Agade or of ...
/.../chapter ithe assyrian revival and.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... the rites which constituted him the legitimate successor of the semi-fabulous heroes
of the old empire, foremost among whom was his namesake Shargani of Agade. ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... They cover the pivot stones on which Sargon of Agade or one of the Bursins had hung
the doors of the temple of Nippur, but which Gandish dedicated afresh in ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8. <. ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Thesaurus

Agade
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia AGADE. ag'-a-de: Ancient name for Akkad
(or ACCAD, which see), one of the chief cities of Babylonia ...
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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
... History (1) The Earliest Period (2) Sargon of Agade and His Successors (3) The
Suzerainty of the Kings of Ur (4) Elam Becomes Predominant 2280 Years BC (5) The ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
... History (1) The Earliest Period (2) Sargon of Agade and His Successors (3) The
Suzerainty of the Kings of Ur (4) Elam Becomes Predominant 2280 Years BC (5) The ...
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Agag (6 Occurrences)

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Syria (73 Occurrences)
... Belt (6) Rivers (7) Nature of Soil (8) Flora (9) Fauna (10) Minerals (11) Central
Position 4. History (1) Canaanitic Semites (2) Sargon of Agade (3) Babylonian ...
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Kittim (8 Occurrences)
... According to the Assyrian copy of Sargon of Agade's omens, that king (about 3800
BC in the opinion of Nabonidus; 2800 BC in the opinion of many Assyriologists ...
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Calneh (2 Occurrences)
... Sargon of Agade, Sur-Engur, Dungi and all the more prominent kings of Babylonia
in its larger sense interested themselves in the rebuilding and restoration of ...
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Ag'abus (2 Occurrences)
Ag'abus. Agabus, Ag'abus. Agade . Multi-Version Concordance Ag'abus (2 Occurrences). ...
(See RSV). Agabus, Ag'abus. Agade . Reference Bible.
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Armenia (2 Occurrences)
... (According to Jewish tradition this was one of the Kurdish mountains.) It is next
spoken of by Sargon I of Agade, circa 3800 BC, as among his conquests. ...
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Shushan (19 Occurrences)
... Among the finds may be mentioned the triumphal stele of Naram-Sin, king of Agade
(3rd-4th millennium BC); the statuettes of the Babylonian king Dungi (circa ...
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Subtopics

Agade

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