STRONGS NT 687: ἄρα (2)ἄρα (2), an interrogative particle (implying anxiety or impatience on the part of the questioner. Liddell and Scott, under the word) (of the same root as the preceding ἄρα, and only differing from it in that more vocal stress is laid upon the first syllable, which is therefore circumflexed); 1.numigitur, i. e. marking an inferential question to which a negative answer is expected: Luk_18:8; with γέ rendering it more pointed, ἄρα γέ (GT ἄραγε): Act_8:30; (ἄρα οὖν ... διώκομεν Lachmann edition min. also major marginal reading are we then pursuing etc. Rom_14:19). 2. ergone i. e. a question to which an affirmative answer is expected, in an interrogative apodosis (German soistalsowohl?), he is then? Gal_2:17 (where others (e. g. Lachmann) write ἄρα, so that this example is referred to those mentioned under ἄρα, 3, and is rendered Christ is then a minister of sin; but μή γένοιτο, which follows, is everywhere by Paul opposed to a question). Cf. Winers Grammar, 510f (475f) (also Buttmann, 247 (213), 371 (318); Herm. ad Vig., p. 820ff; Klotz ad Devar. ii., p. 180ff; speaking somewhat loosely, it may be said "ἄρα expresses bewilderment as to a possible conclusion ... ἄρα hesitates, while ἄρα concludes." Lightfoot on Galatians, the passage cited).

ἆρα ara 3x inferential particle, used mainly in interrogations, Luk_18:8 ; Act_8:30 ; Gal_2:17

ἆρα , interrog. particle, implying anxiety or impatience, "quite rare and only in Luke and Paul, therefore a literary word" (El., § 77, 2). 1. (num igitur) expecting a neg . reply, Luk_18:8 ; ἆρά γε , Ac 830. 2. (ergone) in apodosis, expecting an affirm. reply, Gal_2:17 (Bl., l.c .; Lft ., Ga., in l ; MM , s.v. ).† ἆράγε , see ἆρα .

ἆρα [page 73] The interrogative ἆρα occurs in a curious interview with a Roman emperor, P Oxy I. 33 iv. 7 (late ii/A.D.), where a condemned man asks who had recalled him, ἆρα ἡ σύνκλητος ἢ σὺ ὁ λῄσταρχος ; Was it the senate, or you, the archpirate? (Edd.). For the MGr use of ἀρά (ἄραγε [ς ]) in questions implying doubt (or refusal), see Thumb s Handbook , p. 180 f.

ἆρα "particle introducing a question" interrog. Particle, in accent and sense a stronger form of ἄρα: when it stands alone it usually expects a negative answer, like Lat. num? attic; so ἆρα μή; "num vero?" Aesch. :—for an affirmative answer, ἆρ᾽ οὐ; ἆρ᾽ οὐχί; "nonne vero"? is used, Soph. , etc. in prose, ἆρα almost always stands first in the sentence.

ἆρα, interrog. particle, implying anxiety or impatience, "quite rare and only in Luke and Paul, therefore a literary word" (Bl., §77, 2). __1. (num igitur) expecting a neg. reply, Luk.18:8; ἆρά γε, Act.8:30. __2. (ergone) in apodosis, expecting an affirm. reply, Gal.2:17 (Bl., l.with; Lft., Ga., in l.; MM, see word). † (AS)