noun · feminine
agōgas
Strong’sG72
conduct
stem agōg-once in the New Testament1 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.
ἀγωγή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< ἄγω), [in LXX: Es 2:20 10:3, II Mac 4:16 6:8 11:24, III Mac 4:10*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G72 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag-o-gay'
a bringing up, i.e. mode of living
Fromreduplicated from G71;
King Jamesmanner of life.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ἄγω) carrying away, Refs 5th c.BC+; freight, carriage, πρὸς τὰς ἀγωγὰς.. χρῆσθαι ὑποζυγίοιςRefs 5th c.BC+
b intransitive, τὴν ἀ. διὰ τάχους ἐποιεῖτο pursued his voyage, Refs 5th c.BC+; movement, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀ. ἐπί τι tendency towards.., Refs 5th c.BC+
2 bringing to or in, ὑμῶν ἡ ἐς τοὺς ὀλίγους ἀ. your bringing us before the council, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 forcible seizure, carrying off, abduction, Refs 5th c.BC+
4 ὕδατος ἀγωγαί aqueducts, Refs 1st c.BC+
5 load, Refs; weight, Refs
6 winding up of engine, Refs 3rd c.BC+
7 drawing of lines, Refs 5th c.AD+
8 evoking, πνευμάτωνRefs 4th c.AD+
8.b spell for bringing a person, usually love-charm, Refs
II leading, guidance, ἵππουRefs 5th c.BC+
II.2 leading of an army, Refs; ἀ. στραταρχίας conduct of an expedition, Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.3 direction, training, παιδεία μέν ἐσθ᾽ ἡ παίδων ὁλκή τε καὶ ἀ. πρὸς τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου λόγον ὀρθὸν εἰρημένονRefs 5th c.BC+: in plural, systems of education, Refs 3rd c.BC+; especially of the public education of the Spartan youth, Λακωνικὴ ἀ.Refs 2nd c.BC+; ἀ. στοιχειώδης elementary course, Refs 3rd c.BC+ Praef.:—also of plants, culture, Refs 4th c.BC+; of diseases, treatment, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 way of life, conduct, Archyt cited in NT+3rd c.BC+
II.5 keeping, observance, ἡμερῶνRefs 4th c.BC+
II.6 generally, method, construction (of a law), Refs 4th c.BC+; style, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.7 method of proof, especially of syllogistic reasoning, λόγοι τὰς ἀγωγὰς ὑγιεῖς ἔχοντεςRefs 3rd c.BC+; line of argument, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.8 school of philosophers, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.9 Milit., manoeuvre, movement, Refs 1st c.BC+; order of march, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.10 in Law, = Latin actio, Refs 4th c.AD+
III tempo, in music, Refs 5th c.BC+; sequence, of a melody, Refs 4th c.BC+; musical style, Refs 1st c.BC+
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 | agōgas | agōgais |
| object accusative | agōgan | agōgain |
| direct address vocative | agōgar | agōgair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agōgau | agōgaiu |
| to, for dative | agōga1×ἀγωγῇ | agōgai |
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
agōga 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
agōga“conduct”to, fordative singular1×
2 Timothy 3:10… de parakolouthasa mu ta didaskalia, ta agōga, ta prothesia, ta pistia, ta makrothumia, …… however, have observed my teaching, my conduct, my purpose, my faith, my patience …