A prophet who encouraged the Israelites to rebuild the temple after a return from the exile in Babylonia in the sixth century B.C.E. See Chapter 13.

Haggai (Hebrew: חַגַּי, Ḥaggay) was one of the twelve minor prophets and the author of the Book of Haggai. He was the first of three prophets (with Zechariah, his contemporary, and Malachi, who lived about one hundred years later), whose ministry belonged to the period of Jewish history which began after the return from captivity in Babylon.