Quick Definition
ἄγριος, ία, ιον Adj wild, fierce
Strong's Definition
from 68; wild (as pertaining to the country), literally (natural) or figuratively (fierce)
KJV Usage: wild, raging
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -α, -ον | ἀγρός
20.6 · Violence, Harm, Destroy, Kill · Violence
violent, stormy (a figurative extension of meaning of ἄγριος ‘wild, savage’) pertaining to what is violent and uncontrolled This expression in JUD 1:13, however, is applied to people, and therefore it may be necessary to make the figurative reference clear, for example, they are like stormy waves of the sea or ... wild waves of the sea.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος, -a,-ov, (ἀγρός), [fr. Hom. 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: μέλε ἄγριον wild honey, either that which is deposited by bees in hollow trees, clefts of rocks, on the bare ground (1 S. xiv. 25 [cf. vs. 26]), ete., or more correctly that which distils from certain trees, and is gathered when it has become hard, (Diod. Sic. 19, 94 fin. speaking of the Nabathaean Arabians says φύεται παρ᾽ αὐτοῖς μέλι πολὺ τὸ καλούμενον ἄγριον, ᾧ χρῶνται ποτῷ μεθ᾽ ὕδατος ; cf. Suid. and esp. Suicer 5. ν. ἀκρίς): Mt. iii. 4; ΜΚ. 1. 6. 2. fierce, untamed: κύματα θαλάσσης, Jude 13 (Sap. xiv. 1).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἄγριος agrios 3x
belonging to the field, wild; fierce, raging, Mt. 3:4; Mk. 1:6; Jude 13*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἄγριος, -α, -ον
(< ἀγρός), [in LXX for שָׂדֶה, etc.;]
living in fields, wild: μέλι. Mt 3:4, Mk 1:6.
savage, fierce: Ju 13. (Cf. usage in π. of a malignant wound; MM, VGT, s.v.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἄγριος. P Tebt II. 612 (i/ii A.D.) θήρας ἀγρίῳν : cf. BGU IV. 1123° (time of Augustus) ἢ ἰχθύας ἢ ἀγρίας ἢ ξυλείας. The adjective is used of a ‘“‘ malignant” sore or wound in Syd/ 802144 (jii/B.c.) ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀγρίον ἕλκεος δεινῶς διακείμ[ενἼος : 26. 806° (Roman age).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἄγριος (agrios) — wild. ἄγριος, α, ον, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also ος, ον (not in Trag. or com). [Refs 8th c.BC+]: comparative -ώτερος[Refs 5th c.BC+]: superlative -ώτατος[Refs 5th c.BC+] (ἀγρός): living in the fields, wild, savage.
I. of animals, opposed to τιθασός ἥμερος, wild, βάλλειν ἄγρια πάντα[Refs 8th c.BC+]; even of flies, ἄ. φῦλα, μυίας[Refs]; ἵπποι, ὄνοι, etc., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄ. τέρας, of a bull, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, living in a wild state, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2. of trees, opposed to ἥμερος, wild, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μητρὸς ἀγρίας ἄπο ποτόν of the wild vine, [NT+5th c.BC+]
I.3. of countries, wild, uncultivated, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. mostly of men, beasts, etc.:
II.1. in moral sense, savage, fierce, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄ. κυβευτής a passionate gambler, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; especially of παιδερασταί, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2. of temper, wild, fierce, θυμός, χόλος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄγριος ἄτη[Refs]; ἄ. ὁδοί cruel ways or counsels, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀγριώτατα ἤθεα[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ἄ. savageness, [Refs]; ἐς τὸ -ώτερον to harsher measures, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. of things, circumstances, etc., cruel, harsh, δεσμά[Refs 4th c.BC+]; νὺξ -ωτέρη wild, stormy, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σύντασις ἀ. a violent strain, [Refs]; ἄ. βάρος, of strong, hot wine, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3. b ἀ. νόσος, probably, malignant, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. adverb -ίως, savagely, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄγρια δερκομένω, παίσδων, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ᾱ in trimeter, ᾰ in Lyric poetry [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ᾱ?~X [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ῑ metri grat., where the ultima is long, [Refs 8th c.BC+]