Bible Person

Azgad

Meaning: a strong army; a gang of robbers · Male · 3 cross references

Azgad is the ancestral or house-name behind a returnee family listed in Ezra and Nehemiah. It marks one of the recognized groups participating in the post-exilic return and rebuilding effort. First appears in Ezra 2:12.1

AI summary: Azgad matters because the cross references present the house as a substantial returnee group active across more than one restoration list. The repetition gives the family continuity in the memory of return, travel, and resettlement. Though the figure is not narrative in the usual sense, the house plays a real part in the reconstitution of the people. Taken together, the material presents Azgad as a returnee house participating in the rebuilding of Judah after exile.1

Central Figure

Azgad

Meaning: a strong army; a gang of robbers