ἀγανακτέω
to be indignant
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 3 times (43%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (14%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (14%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 7 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G23 appears — 7 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 3 verses
- Matthew 20:24 ἠγανάκτησαν aor act ind 3pl When the ten heard it, they were indignant with the two brothers.
- Matthew 21:15 ἠγανάκτησαν aor act ind 3pl But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
- Matthew 26:8 ἠγανάκτησαν aor act ind 3pl But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
Mark 3 verses
- Mark 10:14 ἠγανάκτησεν aor act ind 3sg But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
- Mark 10:41 ἀγανακτεῖν pres act inf When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
- Mark 14:4 ἀγανακτοῦντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc But there were some who were indignant among themselves, saying, "Why has this ointment been wasted?
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
αγανακτεω (aganaktéō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to be indignant.” Debuting at Matthew 20:24, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Matthew dominates its distribution — 3 of 7 verses. Related forms include αγκαλη, αγγειον and αγκιστρον. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G23 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Gospels 7 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Be much displeased 1×, Had indignation 1×, He was much displeased 1×
- American Standard Version: It 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: They were indignant 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Became very angry 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G23 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G23 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G23 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G23 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be indignant, moved with indignation, be very displeased
Word origin
Derived from αγκαλη (ankálē) (G43) — arm.
From ἄγαν agan ( much ) and ἄχθος achhos̄ ( grief ; akin to the base of G43 ); to be greatly afflicted that is (figuratively) indignant : - be much (sore) displeased have (be moved with with) indignation.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G23 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἠγανάκτησαν ēganáktēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 20:24 | 3 |
| ἀγανακτεῖν aganakteîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Mark 10:41 | 1 |
| ἀγανακτοῦντες aganaktoûntes | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Mark 14:4 | 1 |
| ἀγανακτῶν aganaktō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 13:14 | 1 |
| ἠγανάκτησεν ēganáktēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 10:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G23, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- αγγειον angeîon G30 vessel
- αγκιστρον ánkistron G44 fish hook
- αγκυρα ánkyra G45 anchor
- εγγυς engýs G1451 near
- ογκος ónkos G3591 bulk
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
