Agabus

Agabus appears in the New Testament book of Acts as one of the group of prophets who traveled between Jerusalem and Antioch (Acts 11:27–28) and later as the prophet who met Paul in Caesarea and foretold his capture (Acts 21:10–12). The name is given in Greek as Ἄγαβος (romanized Hágabos) and in Syriac as ܚܓܒ (romanized Ḥagabo); its etymology is traced to the Aramaic Ḥagab meaning ‘Grasshopper’, which may have been a nickname or pseudonym. Later ecclesiastical tradition places him among the Seventy Disciples and describes missionary journeys and a martyrdom (accounts of arrest, torture, and stoning), though those martyrdom details derive from later tradition rather than the Acts narrative.

The supplied sources do not preserve any contemporary physical description of Agabus. Biblical accounts in Acts record his prophetic words and a symbolic enacted gesture but give no details of his clothing, stature, or facial features. Later devotional or iconographic portrayals are not documented in the provided materials.

Primary attestations describe Agabus as a human prophet who received and announced divinely given knowledge. In Acts he predicted a severe famine (Acts 11:27–28) and later warned Paul of impending capture, physically binding himself with Paul's belt as a symbolic demonstration of what would happen (Acts 21:10–12). Tradition attributes missionary activity and eventual martyrdom to him; these are extrabiblical claims reported in later sources.