Given name
Agabus
“grasshopper”
Agabus is used as a given name.
Original GreekΑγαβος
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a biblical name, Agabus means “grasshopper.”
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Where it comes from
Agabus is a biblical name from Greek.
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In the Bible
In the Bible, the name Agabus appears in Acts 11:28.
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Agabus’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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