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n. A book of the Old Testament of the Bible and the Tanakh.
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Haggai (, Ḥaggay or Hag-i, Koine Greek: Ἀγγαῖος; ) was a Hebrew prophet during the building of the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible and the author of the Book of Haggai. His name means "my holiday". He was the first of three post-exile prophets from the Neo-Babylonian Exile of the House of Judah (with Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), who 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 of the Jews to Judah (ca. 520 BC). The work of rebuilding the temple had been put to a stop through the intrigues of the Samaritans. After having been suspended for eighteen years, the work was resumed through the efforts of Haggai and Zechariah. They exhorted the people, which roused them from their lethargy, and induced them to take advantage of a change in the policy of the Persian government under Darius the Great.
The name Haggai, with various vocalizations, is also found in the Book of Esther, as a eunuch servant of the Queen.
Haggai is one of the Biblical minor prophets.
Haggai or Hagai may also refer to:
- Book of Haggai, the book of the Bible attributed to the prophet Haggai
- Haggai, Missouri
- Beit Hagai, officially just Hagai, a religious Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Hagai Levi, Israeli film and television director
- Hagai Shaham, Israeli violinist
- Hagai Zamir, Israeli paralympic champion
Usage examples of "haggai".
For so, indeed, did that carnal people understand what was foretold by Haggai the prophet, saying, "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former.
But even the reprobate Jews hold Malachi, Haggai, Zechariah, and Ezra as the last received into canonical authority.
Of these Haggai more openly prophesies of Christ and the Church thus briefly: "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Yet one little while, and I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.
For this reason, then, that nation had no prophets from that time, but was afflicted with many plagues by kings of alien race, and by the Romans themselves, lest they should fancy that this prophecy of Haggai was fulfilled by that rebuilding of the temple.
Therefore the prophecy of Haggai was not fulfilled in the rebuilding of that temple.