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.
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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+]
