Agee (a'-ge) is a Biblical figure who was the father of Shammah, who was one of David's mighty men (II Samuel 23:11). Based interpretations of I Chronicles 11:34 and II Samuel 23:32-33 Agee was either the grandfather of Jonathan or his brother. This Gutenberg Bible is displayed by the United States Library of Congress. ... Shammah was the son of Agee, a Haratite and was one of Davids three legendary mighty men. His great deed was the defeat of a troop of Phillistines. ... This page is about the Biblical king David. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...
Meaning: fugitive; a valley, deepness
It is also a recognized last name, often of french decent. Although, it's kind of discouraging to discover how my last name means fugitive. Keith Agee would literally mean "A windy hollow fugitive" Or Edward Agee would literally mean "Protector of Wealth fugitive" Can anyone say oximoron?
References
"Agee", International Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
"Agee", Hitchcock's Bible Names.
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897. Eastons Bible Dictionary generally refers to the Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, by Matthew George Easton M.A., D.D. (1823-1894), published three years after Eastons death in 1897 by Thomas Nelson. ...
So voracious was he for experience that in valuing life, as he put it, he could not help but shape the penetrating, passionate, and colorful poetry and prose he produced.
Of Huguenot ancestry, James Agee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1909, the son of a postal worker who was killed in the prime of his life in an automobile accident.
Agee would seek new platforms for his writing: pioneering the art of film criticism for THE NATION and TIME MAGAZINE, completing his novel, A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, which was published posthumously in 1957, and writing several screenplays and documentary film scripts--leaving one on the Tanglewood Festival unfinished at the time of his death.
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