Agabus

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Agabus
     a "prophet," probably one of the seventy disciples of Christ. He
     prophesied at Antioch of an approaching famine (Acts 11:27, 28).
     Many years afterwards he met Paul at Caesarea, and warned him of
     the bonds and affliction that awaited him at Jerusalem should he
     persist in going thither (Acts 21:10-12).


     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Agabus, a locust; the father's joy or feast