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Lexicon :: Strong's G68 - agros

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ἀγρός
Transliteration
agros (Key)
Pronunciation
ag-ros'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

ἀγρός agrós, ag-ros'; from G71; a field (as a drive for cattle); genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. hamlet:—country, farm, piece of ground, land.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's G68 in the following manner: field (22x), country (8x), land (4x), farm (1x), piece of ground (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's G68 in the following manner: field (22x), country (8x), land (4x), farm (1x), piece of ground (1x).
  1. land

    1. the field, the country

    2. a piece of land, bit of tillage

    3. the farms, country seats, neighbouring hamlets

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἀγρός agrós, ag-ros'; from G71; a field (as a drive for cattle); genitive case, the country; specially, a farm, i.e. hamlet:—country, farm, piece of ground, land.
STRONGS G68:
ἀγρός, -οῦ, (from ἄγω; properly, a drove or driving-place, then, pasturage; cf. Latin ager, German Acker, English acre; Fick, Part i., p. 8);
a. a field, the country: Matthew 6:28; Matthew 24:18; Luke 15:15; [Mark 11:8 T Tr WH], etc.
b. equivalent to χωρίον, a piece of land, bit of tillage: Acts 4:37; Mark 10:29; Matthew 13:24, 27, etc.
c. οἱ ἀγροί the farms, country-seats, neighboring hamlets: Mark 5:14 (opposed to πόλις); Mark 6:36; Luke 9:12. [(From Homer on.)]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
6:28; 13:24; 13:27; 24:18
Mark
5:14; 6:36; 10:29; 11:8
Luke
9:12; 15:15
Acts
4:37

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G68 matches the Greek ἀγρός (agros),
which occurs 224 times in 206 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 3 / 5 (2Sa 1:21–Sng 3:5)

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:21 - “You mountains of Gilboa,
let there be no dew or rain upon you,
nor fields of offerings![fn]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:18 - And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:7 - And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:8 - And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:23 - The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - And your servant had two sons, and they quarreled with one another in the field. There was no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Then he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.[fn]
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:8 - Hushai said, “You know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged,[fn] like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. Besides, your father is expert in war; he will not spend the night with the people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:29 - And the king said to him, “Why speak any more of your affairs? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:12 - And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:10 - Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:11 - And next to him was Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi,[fn] where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the men fled from the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:26 - And to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because you shared in all my father’s affliction.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:39 - One of them went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine and gathered from it his lap full of wild gourds, and came and cut them up into the pot of stew, not knowing what they were.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:12 - And the king rose in the night and said to his servants, “I will tell you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore they have gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the open country, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive and get into the city.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:3 - And at the end of the seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to appeal to the king for her house and her land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:5 - And while he was telling the king how Elisha had restored the dead to life, behold, the woman whose son he had restored to life appealed to the king for her house and her land. And Gehazi said, “My lord, O king, here is the woman, and here is her son whom Elisha restored to life.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed an official for her, saying, “Restore all that was hers, together with all the produce of the fields from the day that she left the land until now.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him:
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:37 - and the corpse of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:9 - And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:17 - And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer’s Field.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength,
are dismayed and confounded,
and have become like plants of the field
and like tender grass,
like grass on the housetops,
blighted before it is grown.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 11:13 - He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for battle. There was a plot of ground full of barley, and the men fled from the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:32 - Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
let the field exult, and everything in it!
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:25 - Over the king’s treasuries was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the towers, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:18 - And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 31:5 - As soon as the command was spread abroad, the people of Israel gave in abundance the firstfruits of grain, wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field. And they brought in abundantly the tithe of everything.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:11 - Return to them this very day their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards, and their houses, and the percentage of money, grain, wine, and oil that you have been exacting from them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:16 - I also persevered in the work on this wall, and we acquired no land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:25 - And as for the villages, with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages, and in Dibon and its villages, and in Jekabzeel and its villages,
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:30 - Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its villages. So they encamped from Beersheba to the Valley of Hinnom.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:10 - I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:5 - Behold, like wild donkeys in the desert
the poor[fn] go out to their toil, seeking game;
the wasteland yields food for their children.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:6 - They gather their[fn] fodder in the field,
and they glean the vineyard of the wicked man.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:15 - forgetting that a foot may crush them
and that the wild beast may trample them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:11 - I know all the birds of the hills,
and all that moves in the field is mine.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 103:15 - As for man, his days are like grass;
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:11 - they give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild donkeys quench their thirst.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:37 - they sow fields and plant vineyards
and get a fruitful yield.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:27 - Prepare your work outside;
get everything ready for yourself in the field,
and after that build your house.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:9 - But this is gain for a land in every way: a king committed to cultivated fields.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:7 - I adjure you,[fn] O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
Unchecked Copy BoxSng 3:5 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

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