noun · masculine
tragos
Strong’sG5131
a he-goat
stem trag-3 times 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.
τράγος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX chiefly for עַתּוּד, also for צָפִיר, תַּיִשׁ;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5131 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrag'-os
a he-goat (as a gnawer)
Fromfrom the base of G5176;
King Jamesgoat.
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
he-goat, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to αἴξ (she-goat), Refs 5th c.BC+; τῶν αἰγῶν τῶν τράγων Refs 5th c.BC+; τράγος γένειον.. πενθήσεις you will mourn your beard like the goat in the proverb, Refs 4th c.BC+; Κιλίκιοι τράγοι, of longhaired men, Refs; of men, τράγου ὄζειν, τράγου πνεῖν, to smell like a goat, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 the age when change of voice and other signs of puberty appear, Refs 5th c.BC+
2.b the change of the voice which takes place at this age, uncertain in Refs; compare τραγάω, τραγίζω.
3 lewdness, lechery, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II the male of the fish μαινίς, Refs 4th c.BC+
III spelt, Refs 1st c.AD+
IV a rough kind of sponge, Refs 4th c.BC+
V among the Messenians, the wild fig, ={ἐρινεός}, Refs 1st c.BC+ (where perhaps = goat).
V.2 ={ἐφέδρα}Refs 1st c.AD+
V.3 stinking nard, Valeriana saxatilis, Refs 1st c.AD+
VI part of the ear (compare ἀντίτραγος), Refs 2nd c.AD+
VII a kind of light Lycian ship, Refs 2nd c.AD+
VIII a kind of comet, Refs 6th c.AD+
VIII.2 a constellation of the δωδεκάωρος,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 | tragos | tragois |
| object accusative | tragon | tragoin |
| direct address vocative | tragor | tragoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | tragou | tragoiu3×τράγων |
| to, for dative | trago | tragoi |
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
trago 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
tragoiu“goats”of, belonging togenitive plural3×
Hebrews 9:12oude dia haimeu tragoiu kai moschoiu dia de teu idieu …… not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the …
Hebrews 9:13ei gar tem haimem tragoiu kai tauroiu kai spodas damaliau rantizarōntas …For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of …
Hebrews 10:4adunatem gar haimem tauroiu kai tragoiu afairarō hamartain.… for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.