ἀγέλη
herd
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G34 appears in the Book of Luke — 2 distinct verses. 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.
Luke
- Luke 8:32 ἀγέλη n nom sg fem Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. He allowed them.
- Luke 8:33 ἀγέλη n nom sg fem The demons came out from the man, and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned.
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.
αγελη (agélē) is a Greek noun most often rendered “herd.” It first appears in Matthew 8:30. The Greek New Testament uses it across 7 verses — uncommon. Matthew dominates its distribution — 3 of 7 verses. Sharing its root, it stands alongside αγω, αγγελος and αγε. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G34 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) 2 verses · 29%
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: Herd 8×
- American Standard Version: Herd 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Herd 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Herd 7×, A 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G34 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G34 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G34 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G34 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- herd or oxen or cattle, a herd or company
Word origin
Derived from αγω (ágō) (G71) — to lead.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G34 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀγέλη agélē | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 8:30 | 6 |
| ἀγέλην agélēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 8:31 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G34, 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
- αγγελος ángelos G32 angel
- αγε áge G33 come
- αγρα ágra G61 prey
- αγρος agrós G68 land
- αγωγη agōgḗ G72 conduct
- αγων agṓn G73 assembly
- αξιος áxios G514 worthy
- ηγεομαι hēgéomai G2233 to govern
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγελη appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 9 verses in 4 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 9
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Samuel 17:14 ἀγέλη
- Proverbs 27:23 ἀγέλη
- Song of Solomon 1:7 ἀγέλη
- Isaiah 60:6 ἀγέλη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G34) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 17:14 ἀγέλη David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.
- 1 Samuel 24:4 ἀγέλη The men of David said to him, Behold, the day of which Yahweh said to you, Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.
- Proverbs 27:23 ἀγέλη Know well the state of your flocks, And pay attention to your herds:
- Song of Solomon 1:7 ἀγέλη Tell me, you whom my soul loves, Where you graze your flock, Where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled Beside the flocks of your companions? Lover
- Song of Solomon 4:1 ἀγέλη Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, That descend from Mount Gilead.
- Song of Solomon 4:2 ἀγέλη Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, Which have come up from the washing, Where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
- Song of Solomon 6:5 ἀγέλη Turn away your eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.
- Song of Solomon 6:6 ἀγέλη Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which have come up from the washing; Of which every one has twins; None is bereaved among them.
- Isaiah 60:6 ἀγέλη The multitude of camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall proclaim the praises of Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G34) 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.
