Quick Definition
wild, fierce
Strong's Definition
wild (as pertaining to the country), literally (natural) or figuratively (fierce)
Derivation: from G68 (ἀγρός);
KJV Usage: wild, raging
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος, , (ἀγρός) (from Homer down);
1. living or growing in the fields or the woods, used of animals in a state of nature, and of plants which grow without culture: μέλι ἄγριον wild honey, either that which is deposited by bees in hollow trees, clefts of rocks, on the bare ground (1Sa_14:25 (cf. 1Sa_14:26)), etc., or more correctly that which distils from certain trees, and is gathered when it has become hard (Diodorus Siculus 19, 94 at the end, speaking of the Nabathaean Arabians says φύεται παῥ αὐτοῖς μέλι πολύ τό καλούμενον ἄγριον, ᾧ χρῶνται πότῳ μεθ' ὕδατος; cf. Suidas and especially Suicer under the word ἀκρίς): Mat_3:4; Mar_1:6.
2. fierce, untamed: κύματα θαλάσσης, Jud_1:13 (Wis_14:1).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄγριος agrios 3x
belonging to the field, wild; fierce, raging, Mat_3:4 ; Mar_1:6 ; Jud_1:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος , -α , -ον ( <ἀγρός ), [in LXX for H7704 , etc.;]
1. living in fields, wild: μέλι , Mat_3:4 , Mar_1:6 .
2. savage, fierce: Jud_1:13 . ( Cf. usage in Papyri of a malignant wound; MM , VGT , s.v. )†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄγριος [page 6]
P Tebt II. 612 (i/ii A.D.) θήρας ἀγρι̣ω̣ν : cf. BGU IV. 1123 .9 (time of Augustus) ἢ ἰχθύας ἢ ἀγρίας ἢ ξυλείας . The adjective is used of a malignant sore or wound in Syll 802 .114 (iii/B.C.) ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀγρίου ἕλκεος δεινῶς διακείμ [εν ]ος : ib. 806 .5 (Roman age).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος [Etym: ἀγρός] "living in the fields", Lat. agrestis: of animals, "wild, savage", αἴξ, σῦς Il. ; ἵπποι, ὄνοι Hdt. , etc.; of men, id=Hdt. ; of "a countryman", as opp. to a citizen, Mosch. of trees, "wild", Hdt. , etc.; μητρὸς ἀγρίας ἄπο made from the "wild" vine, Aesch. ; ἄγρ. ἔλαιον, Soph. of countries, "wild, uncultivated", Plat. of men and animals, "having qualities incident to a wild state": in moral sense, "savage, fierce", Lat. ferus, ferox, Hom. , etc. "wild, brutal, coarse, boorish, rude", Hom. , etc.; ἀγριώτατα ἤθεα Hdt. ; ἐς τὸ ἀγριώτερον "to harsher measures", Thuc. of things and circumstances, "cruel, harsh", Aesch. , etc.; νὺξ ἀγριωτέρη "more wild, stormy", Hdt. ; ἀγρ. νόσος "a malignant disease", Soph. adv. -ίως, "savagely", Aesch. , etc.: also ἄγρια as neut. pl., Hes. , Mosch.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος, -α, -ον
(ἀγρός), [in LXX for שָׂדֶה, etc. ;]
__1. living in fields, wild: μέλι. Mat.3:4, Mrk.1:6.
__2. savage, fierce: Ju 13. (Cf. usage in π. of a malignant wound; MM, VGT, see word)
† (AS)