noun · feminine
agelas
Strong’sG34
a flock, herd
stem agel-7 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἀγέλη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἄγω), [in LXX chiefly for עֵ֫דֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G34 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἄγω) herd, of horses, Refs 8th c.BC+ always of oxen and kine, Refs 8th c.BC+—also, any herd or company, συῶν ἀ. Refs 8th c.BC+; shoal of fish, Refs 5th c.BC+
II in Crete and at Sparta, bands in which boys were trained, Refs 4th c.BC+
III ={ἀστρικαὶ σφαῖραι} Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | agelas6×ἀγέλη | agelais |
| object accusative | agelan1×ἀγέλην | agelain |
| direct address vocative | agelar | agelair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agelau | agelaiu |
| to, for dative | agela | agelai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
agela is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
agelas“herd”subjectnominative singular6×
Matthew 8:30ate de makran apo autoiu agelas choiroiu polloiu boskorōntas.In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding.
Matthew 8:32… choiroin; kai idou hormata pantas tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan thalassan, …… into the pigs, and the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into …
Mark 5:11ate de ekei pros te ore agelas choiroiu megas boskorōntas;… on the nearby hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
Mark 5:13… eis toin choiroin, kai hormata tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan thalassan, …… went into the pigs, and the herd of about two thousand rushed down …
Luke 8:32Ate de ekei agelas choiroiu hikanoiu boskorōntas en te ore; …There on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding. So the …
Luke 8:33… eis toin choiroin, kai hormata tas agelas kata tou krēmnou eis tan limnan …… went into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into …
agelan“herd”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 8:31… ekbalasō nin, apostelasar nin eis tan agelan toiu choiroiu.… us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”