Strong's G68: ἀγρός (agrós) Meaning

Quick Definition

ἀγρός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. a field, the country

Strong's Definition

a field (as a drive for cattle); genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. hamlet

Derivation: from G71 (ἄγω);

KJV Usage: country, farm, piece of ground, land

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀγρός (G0068)

noun, m. | -οῦ | ἀγραυλέω · ἀγριέλαιος · ἄγριος

1.95 · Geographical Objects and Features · Pastures and Cultivated Lands

field, land land under cultivation or used for pasture

MAT 6:28 · MAT 6:30 · MAT 13:24 · MAT 13:27 · MAT 13:31 · MAT 13:36 · MAT 13:38 · MAT 13:44 · MAT 13:44 · MAT 19:29 · MAT 22:5 · MAT 24:18 · MAT 24:40 · MAT 27:7 · MAT 27:8 · MAT 27:8 · MAT 27:10 · MRK 10:29 · MRK 10:30 · MRK 11:8 · MRK 13:16 · LUK 12:28 · LUK 14:18 · LUK 15:15 · LUK 15:25 · LUK 17:7 · LUK 17:31 · ACT 4:37

1.87 · Geographical Objects and Features · Areas Which Are Uninhabited or Only Sparsely Populated

countryside, fields, rural area a rural area in contrast with a population center A rural area is often identified by a term or phrase meaning ‘extension of fields’ or ‘place of field after field’ or ‘area of farms.’

MRK 5:14 · MRK 15:21 · MRK 16:12 · LUK 23:26

1.93 · Geographical Objects and Features · Population Centers

farm settlement, hamlet a relatively small village, possibly merely a cluster of farms

MRK 5:14 · MRK 6:36 · MRK 6:56 · LUK 8:34 · LUK 9:12

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἅπτω; 1 aorist participle ἅψας; (cf. Latinapto, German heften); (from Homer down); 1. properly, to fasten to, make adhere to; hence, specifically to fasten fire to a thing, to kindle, set on fire, (often so in Attic): λύχνον, Luk_8:16; Luk_11:33; Luk_15:8 (Aristophanes nub. 57; Theophrastus, char. 20 (18); Josephus, Antiquities 4, 3, 4); πῦρ, Luk_22:55 (T Tr text WH περιαψάντων); πυράν, Act_28:2 L T Tr WH. 2. Middle (present ά῾πτομαι); imperfect ἡπτομην (Mar_6:56 R G Tr marginal reading); 1 aorist ἡψάμην; in the Sept. generally for πΘβΗς , δΔβΔΜιςΗ ; properly, to fasten oneself to, adhere to, cling to (Homer, Iliad 8. 67); a. to touch, followed by the object in genitive (Winers Grammar, § 30, 8 c.; Buttmann, 167 (146); cf. Donaldson, p. 483): Mat_8:3; Mar_3:10; Mar_7:33; Mar_8:22, etc.; Luk_18:15; Luk_22:51 very often in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. In Joh_20:17, μή μου ἅπτου is to be explained thus: Do not handle me to see whether I am still clothed with a body; there is no need of such an examination, for not yet etc.; cf. Baumg.-Crusius and Meyer at the passage (as given by Hackett in Bib. Sacr. for 1868, p. 779f, or B. D. American edition, p. 1813f). b. γυναικός, of carnal intercourse with a woman, or cohabitation, 1Co_7:1, like the Latintangere, Horace sat. 1, 2, 54: Terence, Heaut. 4, 4, 15, and the Hebrew πΘβΗς , Gen_20:6; Pro_6:29 (Plato, de legg. viii. 840 a.; Plutarch, Alex. Magn c. 21). c. with allusion to the levitical precept ἀκαθάρτου μή ἅπτεσθε, have no contact with the Gentiles, no fellowship in their heathenish practices, 2Co_6:17 (from Isa_52:11); and in the Jewish sense, μή ἅψῃ, Col_2:21 (the things not to be touched appear to be both women and certain kinds of food, so that, celibacy and abstinence from various kinds of food and drink are recommended; cf. DeWette at the passage (but also Meyer and Lightfoot; on the distinction between the stronger term ἅπτεσθαι (to handle?) and the more delicate θιγεῖν (to touch?) cf. the two commentators just named and Trench, § xvii. In classic Greek also ἅπτεσθαι is the stronger term, denoting often to lay hold of, hold fast, appropriate; in its carnal reference differing from θιγγάνειν by suggesting unlawfulness. θιγγάνειν, is used of touching by the hand as a means of knowledge, handling for a purpose; ψηλαφαν signifies to feel around with the fingers or hands, especially in searching for something, often to grope, fumble, cf. ψηλαφινδα blindman's buff. Schmidt, chapter 10.)). d. to touch i. e. assail: τίνος, anyone, 1Jn_5:18 (1Ch_16:22, etc.). (Compare: ἀνάπτω, καθάπτω, περιάπτω.) 0

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀγρός agros 36x

a field, especially a cultivated field; pl. the country; lands, farms, villages

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

ἀγρός, -οῦ, ὁ,

[in LXX chiefly for שָׂדֶה];

a field: Mt 6:28, al.

the country: Mk 15:21, al.; pl., country places, farms: Mk 5:14 6:36 56, Lk 8:34 9:12.

= χωρίον a piece of ground: Mk 10:29, Ac 4:27, al. (On the occurrence of this word as compared with χώρα, χωρίον v. MM, VGT, s.v.).

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀγρός. This old and once common word is unexpectedly rare in papyri. P Strass 1. 5.28 (13) (a.p. 151) concerns 2§ arourae of “catoecic land,” ἃς kal παρα[δώσει ἡ δεδανισμ]ένη κατ᾽ ἀγρὸν σπίορί]μας, ““νν1}} transfer these as they lie in good condition for sowing,” as the edd. render the same formula in P Ryl II. 164° (a.p. 171): Preisigke, ‘fin einem landwirtschaftlich brauchbaren Zustande, saatfahig.” The same connotation of ‘‘agricultural land” appear in a few instances we can quote. P Amh II. 6857 (i/a.b.) τῆς vuvel κατ᾽ ἀγρὸν θεωρίας. 70. 134°(ii/A.D.) ὄντα ἐν ἀγρῷ μετὰ τῶν θρεμμάτων, ‘*in the fields with the cattle” ; and as late asiv/a.D., 26. 1434 ὃ yap ἀγρὸς ᾿Αβίου ἐξῆλθεν els σπ[ο]ράν. In P Oxy III. 506%? (A.D. 143) ἀπογράφεσθαί τινα ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν, “register any one as owning those lands” : ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀγροῦ has apparently been erased. /. VI. 967 (ii/A.D.) καλῶς δὲ ποιήσεις ἔπιστείλασα els ἀγρὸν ἄρξασθαι τῶν els τοὺς ἀμπελῶνας ποτισμῶν. P Eleph 135 (B.C. 223-2), περὶ δὲ τοῦ οἰναρίου ΤΙραξιάδης οὔπω εἰσελήλυθεν ἐξ ἀγροῦ : this resembles the ἀπ᾽ ἀγροῦ (‘from field labour” probably) in Mk 153. Apart from one Byzantine document, the two instances quoted are the only occurrences of ἀγρός in P Oxy I.-X., and in the indices to P Fay, P Hib, P Tebt, P Grenf and the Revenue Law it never appears at all, nor in vols. III. and TV. of BGU. It is . , aypuTvEew not worth while to present the scattered instances that are | ἠξάμην is Homeric, and survives in Herodotus and early found in some other collections. Cr6nert’s remark that ἀγρός is obsolete in MGr, except in Cyprian, having been | progressively supplanted by χώρα and χωρίον, falls into line with its relative infrequency in the papyri. It is, however, very common throughout the LNX, and in the Synoptic Gospels (Mt 16, Mk 8, Lk 9). In Acts it only comes once, and it may be significant that Luke has χώρα (Lk 1215, 217) or χωρίον (Ac 138f, 434, 588, 287) where ἀγρός might have been expected. So also Jn 455, 4°, Jas 5σ΄. It is difficult to draw a clear inference, but it looks as if for some reason ἀγρός was a favourite word with translators from Hebrew or Aramaic. We shall meet with other words, rare or comparatively rare in vernacular documents, which have secured a good deal of space in bibl. concordances in this way.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀγρός (agros) — Field of. ἀγρός, οῦ, ὁ, field, mostly in plural, fields, lands, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; singular, farm, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also in plural, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—tilled land, opposed to fallow, ἀγρὸς καὶ ἀργός, Ἀθηνᾶ[Refs]

2. country, opposed to town, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀγρῷ in the country, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγροῦ in the country, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐν ἀγρῷγιγνόμενα fruits, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —proverbial, οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, ἀγροῦπλέως, i.e. boorish, [Refs 5th c.AD+]—Rare in later Greek, [NT]. [ᾰ by nature, so always in Comedy texts, except[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾱγρόθεν in [Refs 7th c.BC+] is paratragoedia] (Cf. Sanskrit ájras 'plain', probably from aj 'drive' (compare ἄγω), i.e. pasture.)

ἀγρός (agros) — field. ἀγρός, οῦ, ὁ, field, mostly in plural, fields, lands, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; singular, farm, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also in plural, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—tilled land, opposed to fallow, ἀγρὸς καὶ ἀργός, Ἀθηνᾶ[Refs]

2. country, opposed to town, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀγρῷ in the country, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγροῦ in the country, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐν ἀγρῷγιγνόμενα fruits, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —proverbial, οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, ἀγροῦπλέως, i.e. boorish, [Refs 5th c.AD+]—Rare in later Greek, [NT]. [ᾰ by nature, so always in Comedy texts, except[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾱγρόθεν in [Refs 7th c.BC+] is paratragoedia] (Cf. Sanskrit ájras 'plain', probably from aj 'drive' (compare ἄγω), i.e. pasture.)

ἀγρός (agros) — Field (of blood). ἀγρός, οῦ, ὁ, field, mostly in plural, fields, lands, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; singular, farm, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also in plural, [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—tilled land, opposed to fallow, ἀγρὸς καὶ ἀργός, Ἀθηνᾶ[Refs]

2. country, opposed to town, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀγρῷ in the country, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγροῦ in the country, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπ᾽ ἀγρῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐν ἀγρῷγιγνόμενα fruits, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —proverbial, οὐδὲν ἐξ ἀγροῦ λέγεις, ἀγροῦπλέως, i.e. boorish, [Refs 5th c.AD+]—Rare in later Greek, [NT]. [ᾰ by nature, so always in Comedy texts, except[Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾱγρόθεν in [Refs 7th c.BC+] is paratragoedia] (Cf. Sanskrit ájras 'plain', probably from aj 'drive' (compare ἄγω), i.e. pasture.)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

ἀγρός, -οῦ, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for שָׂדֶה ]; __1. a field: Mat.6:28, al. __2. the country: Mrk.15:21, al.; pl., country places, farms: Mrk.5:14 6:36 56, Luk.8:34 9:12. __3. = χωρίον a piece of ground: Mrk.10:29, Act.4:27, al. (On the occurrence of this word as compared with χώρα, χωρίον see MM, VGT, see word) (AS)

Bible Occurrences (34)

6:28 6:30 13:24 13:27 13:31 13:36 13:38 13:44 19:29 22:5 24:18 24:40 27:7 27:8 27:10

5:14 6:36 6:56 10:29 10:30 11:8 13:16 15:21 16:12

8:34 9:12 12:28 14:18 15:15 15:25 17:7 17:31 23:26

4:37

G68 ἀγρός (agrós)