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ἀνάγω

to lead up

‘to lead up’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

G321 Strong's Greek
anágō Transliteration
/an-ag'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 23 appearances

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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.

At its core, αναγω (anágō) means “to lead up.” Its uses cluster heavily in Acts (74% of all occurrences). With 23 verses in 5 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Debuting at Matthew 4:1, it then recurs through the corpus. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
bring
Modern gloss
to lead up
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G321 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 →

23
distinct verses
The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 4:1
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 4:1.
Hebrews 13:20
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Hebrews 13:20.
#563
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 4 · 17%
  • Acts 17 · 74%
  • Pauline Epistles 1 · 4%
  • General Epistles 1 · 4%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 23 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 20 verses · 87%
  • Gospels 4 verses · 17%
  • Pauline corpus 1 verse · 4%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 4%

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: We departed 2×
  • American Standard Version: Set sail 5×, We sailed 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Sail 4×, Brought 2×, Sailed 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Up 4×, We put to sea 3×, Bring 2×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G321 across 27 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “We departed” 2×

Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G321 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Set sail” 5×
  • “We sailed” 2×

Plus 17 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 G321 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Sail” 4×
  • “Brought” 2×
  • “Sailed” 2×

Plus 15 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 G321 across 28 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Up” 4×
  • “We put to sea” 3×
  • “Bring” 2×
  • “Having put to sea” 2×
  • “Put to sea” 2×
  • “Sail” 2×

Plus 13 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 2 senses 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.

  1. to lead up, to lead or bring into a higher place
  2. of navigators: launch out, set sail, put to sea

Word origin

Derived from ανα (aná) (G303) — among.

Part of speech: Verb

From G303 and G71 ; to lead up ; by extension to bring out ; specifically to sail away : - bring (again forth up again) depart launch (forth) lead (up) loose offer sail set forth take up.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 12 distinct written forms G321 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἀνήχθημεν anḗchthēmen Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 1st person, Plural Acts 20:13 4
ἀνήγαγον anḗgagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural, Attic form Luke 2:22 3
ἀνάγεσθαι anágesthai Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive Acts 20:3 2
ἀνήχθη anḗchthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Matthew 4:1 2
ἀναγαγεῖν anagageîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive Acts 12:4 2
ἀναγαγὼν anagagṑn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Luke 4:5 2
ἀναχθῆναι anachthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Acts 21:1 2
Ἀναχθέντες Anachthéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 13:13 2
ἀνήχθησαν anḗchthēsan Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 8:22 1
ἀναγαγών anagagṓn Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 16:34 1
ἀναγομένοις anagoménois Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Dative, Plural, Masculine Acts 28:10 1
ἀναχθέντες anachthéntes Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 27:4 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G321, 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

+51 more words share this root (not shown).

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 77 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Septuagint usage

The same Greek word αναγω appears 101 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 96 verses in 21 books.

101
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
96
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
21 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 21 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G321) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 96. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G321) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.

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