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G61 ἄγρα (ágra)
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Quick Definition

ἄγρα, ας, ἡ n.f. catching, a catch

Strong's Definition

from 71; (abstractly) a catching (of fish); also (concretely) a haul (of fish)

KJV Usage: draught

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, f. | -ας | ἀγρεύω

18.8 · Attachment · Grasp, Hold

to catch, a catch the act of catching something Though in Greek the term ἄγρα may be used to refer to the catching of a wide variety of objects, in the context of LUK 5:4 the reference is to fish, and one must make certain that the appropriate term in the receptor language is employed, depending, for example, whether one catches fish, animals, or people.

LUK 5:4 · LUK 5:9

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἄγρα, -as, 9, [ἄγω]; 1. acatching, hunting: Lk. v. 4. 2. the thing caught: ἡ ἄγρα τῶν ἰχθύων ‘the catch or haul of fish’ i. 6. the fishes taken [A. V. draught], Lk. ν. 9.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἄγρα agra 2x

a catching, thing taken, draught of fishes, Lk. 5:4, 9*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* ἄγρα, -ας, ἡ

(< ἄγω),

the chase, a hunting or catching: Lk 5:4.

that which is taken, a catch: of fish, Lk 5:9.†

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἄγρα (agra) — catch. ἄγρα, 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+]

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