Quick Definition
ἀγέλη, ης, ἡ n.f. a flock, herd
Strong's Definition
from 71 (compare 32); a drove
KJV Usage: herd
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | ἄγω
4.8 · Animals · Animals
herd collective for a group of animals In a number of languages a ‘herd’ must be translated merely as ‘many,’ since there is frequently no corresponding collective term which would be applicable only or even primarily to pigs. In some languages, however, there are highly specific terms for various types of groups of animals, so that a distinctive collective expression may be used for pigs, sheep, horses, camels, etc.
MAT 8:30 · MAT 8:31 · MAT 8:32 · MRK 5:11 · MRK 5:13 · LUK 8:32 · LUK 8:33
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀγέλη, -ης, ἡ, (ἄγω to drive), a herd: Mt. viii. 30 sqq.; Mk. ν. 11, 13; Lk. viii. 32 sq. (From Hom. down.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀγέλη agelē 7x
flock, herd
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀγέλη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἄγω), [in LXX chiefly for עֵ֫דֶר;]
a herd: Mt 8:30-32, Mk 5:11, 13, Lk 8:32, 33.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀγέλη. The noun occurs twice in a farm account, P Lond 1171 (B.c. 8) (Ξ- ΠΙ. p. 177). For the adjective ἀγελαῖος, sce Sy/l 587°°° (iv/B.c.) κεραμίδες ayeAatat, with Dittenberger’s note. ayeveahoyntos. “© Nowhere found in prof. auth.,” says Grimm, nor are we able to supply the gap—which is not surprising! It is a good sample of a class of words which any author might coin for a special purpose. ayers. ᾿Αγενής, as opposed to εὐγενής, is well illustrated by P Oxy I. 33¥-° (late ii/A.p.) where, in a dramatic interview with the Emperor, in all probability M. Aurelius—though Wilcken (Chrest. I. p. 34f.) decides for Commodus—a certain Appianus, who had been condemned to death, appeals to his nobility (εὐγένεια) in such a way as to lead the Emperor to retort—@yjs οὖν ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἀγενεῖς ἐσμεν ; For the more general sense of ‘‘ mean,” ‘‘ base,” see the verso of the illiterate P Oxy I. 79% (not earlier than ii/A.p.), perhaps a school composition (Edd.), μηδὲν ταπινὸν μηδὲ ayevés . . . πράξῃς. In Sy// 855" (a dialect inscr. from Delphi, recording the ‘‘sale” of a slave to the god for freed »m—ii/B.c.) εἰ δέ te Μνασὼ (the slave) πάθοι ἀγενὴς ὑπάρχουσα, τὰ καταλειφθέντα ὑπὸ Μνασῶς ᾿Αγησιβούλας (the mistress) ἔστω : here ἀγενής must mean ‘‘ childless,” as in the similar phrase in Sy// 8627, an inscr. of the same period, place and subject. The word was used in this sense by Isaeus, according to Harpocration,
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀγέλη (agelē) — herd. ἀγέλ-η, ἡ, (ἄγω) herd, of horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+] always of oxen and kine, [Refs 8th c.BC+]—also, any herd or company, συῶν ἀ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; shoal of fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. in Crete and at Sparta, bands in which boys were trained, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
III. ={ἀστρικαὶ σφαῖραι} [Refs]