ἀγέλη
agélē · G34 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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herd
Collective for a group of animals
ExamplesMatthew 8:30 Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding at a distance from them.
Matthew 8:31 And the demons begged Him, saying, “If You are going to cast us out, send us into the herd of pigs.”
Matthew 8:32 And He said to them, “Go!” And they came out and went into the pigs; and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- χοῖροςpig 4
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- βόσκωto tend, to feed 1
- μέγαςgreat, large 1
What it doesIt is the subject
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁρμάωto rush 3
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκεῖthere 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- עֵדֶר ʻêder · H5739 · flock, herd, drove
- Hebrew עֵדֶר and Greek ἀγέλη both denote a collective group of domesticated animals (drove, flock, herd), representing direct translation equivalents for the same core concept across the LXX corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Herd4.8
- This noun denotes a herd of animals, as in Mark 5:13's account of the herd of pigs rushing down the steep bank into the sea.
Word family 51 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ης, ἡ (ἄγω to drive), a herd: Mt 8:30ff; Mk 5:11, Mk 5:13; Lk 8:32f. (From Homer down.)
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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