noun · feminine
agras
Strong’sG61
catching, a catch
stem agr-2 times in the New Testament2 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.
* ἄγρα, -ας, ἡ
(< ἄγω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G61 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidag'-rah
(abstractly) a catching (of fish); also (concretely) a haul (of fish)
Fromfrom G71;
King Jamesdraught.
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
Ionic dialect ἄγρη, ἡ, hunting, the chase, (never in Refs 8th c.BC+
2 way of catching, Refs 5th c.BC+
II quarry, prey, Refs 8th c.BC+; game, Refs 5th c.BC+; of fish, draught, take, NT+4th c.BC+
III Ἄγρα, ἡ, title of Artemis at Athens, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ ἐν Ἄγρας (i.e. μυστήρια) Refs 2nd c.AD+ — also Ἄγραι, αἱ, the precinct of Artemis Agra, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | agras | agrais |
| object accusative | agran1×ἄγραν | agrain |
| direct address vocative | agrar | agrair |
| of, belonging to genitive | agrau | agraiu |
| to, for dative | agra1×ἄγρᾳ | agrai |
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
agra 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
agran“catch”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 5:4… kai chalavar teim diktueim vu eis agran.… let down your nets for a catch.”
agra“catch”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 5:9… pantoin toin sun auto epi ta agra toiu ichthoiu hoiu sullabala,… his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,