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ἄγω

to lead

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G71 Strong's Greek
ágō Transliteration
/ag'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 69 appearances

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About this entry

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αγω (ágō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to lead.” Its lexical range runs to 10 senses. Spanning 68 verses in 12 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Greek New Testament. Acts dominates its distribution — 25 of 68 verses. It first appears in Matthew 10:18. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
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Modern gloss
to lead
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 G71 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 →

68
distinct verses
The word appears in 68 distinct verses.
12 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 10:18
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 10:18.
James 5:1
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in James 5:1.
#241
by frequency
Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 241 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 68 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 33 · 49%
  • Acts 25 · 37%
  • Pauline Epistles 7 · 10%
  • General Epistles 3 · 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 68 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 38 verses · 56%
  • Gospels 33 verses · 49%
  • Johannine 13 verses · 19%
  • Pauline corpus 7 verses · 10%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 3%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 1%

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: Brought 14×, Bring 10×, Let us go 5×
  • American Standard Version: Brought 13×, Bring 9×, Be brought 5×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Brought 9×, Bring 8×, Let us go 5×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bring 7×, Brought 7×, Let us go 6×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G71 across 75 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Brought” 14×
  • “Bring” 10×
  • “Let us go” 5×
  • “He brought” 4×
  • “Led” 4×
  • “They brought” 4×
  • “Be brought” 3×

Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G71 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Brought” 13×
  • “Bring” 9×
  • “Be brought” 5×
  • “Let us go” 4×
  • “Led” 3×
  • “Bring him” 2×
  • “Bringing” 2×
  • “Come” 2×
  • “He brought” 2×
  • “He might bring” 2×
  • “Let us be going” 2×
  • “They bring” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 29 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 G71 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Brought” 9×
  • “Bring” 8×
  • “Let us go” 5×
  • “Be brought in” 3×
  • “Led” 3×
  • “Be brought” 2×
  • “Come” 2×
  • “He brought” 2×
  • “Take” 2×
  • “They brought” 2×
  • “They led” 2×

Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G71 across 79 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Bring” 7×
  • “Brought” 7×
  • “Let us go” 6×
  • “Brought him” 5×
  • “Be brought” 4×
  • “They brought” 3×
  • “They led” 3×
  • “Away” 2×
  • “Being led away” 2×
  • “Come” 2×
  • “Having brought” 2×
  • “He brought” 2×

Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


10 senses in Thayer's, in lexicon order

The 10 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 by laying hold of, and this way to bring to the point of destination: of an animal
  2. to lead by accompanying to (into) a place
  3. to lead with one's self, attach to one's self as an attendant
  4. to conduct, bring
  5. to lead away, to a court of justice, magistrate, etc.
  6. to lead, guide, direct
  7. to lead through, conduct to: to something
  8. to move, impel: of forces and influences on the mind
  9. to pass a day, keep or celebrate a feast, etc.
  10. to go, depart

Word origin

Origin: a primary word

Part of speech: Verb

A primary verb; properly to lead ; by implication to bring drive (reflexively) go (specifically) pass (time) or (figuratively) induce : - be bring (forth) carry (let) go keep lead away be open.

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


Forms in the corpus

The 32 distinct written forms G71 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἤγαγον ḗgagon Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Matthew 21:7 13
ἤγαγεν ḗgagen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 4:9 8
ἄγωμεν ágōmen Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Matthew 26:46 7
ἀχθῆναι achthē̂nai Verb, Aorist, Passive, Infinitive Luke 18:40 4
ἀγάγετε agágete Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Luke 19:27 2
ἀγάγῃ agágē Verb, Aorist, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Singular Acts 9:2 2
ἀγαγεῖν agageîn Verb, Aorist, Active, Infinitive John 10:16 2
ἄγει ágei Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 24:21 2
ἄγονται ágontai Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Acts 19:38 2
Ἄγε Áge Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular James 4:13 2
Ἄγουσιν Ágousin Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 9:13 2
ἠγάγετε ēgágete Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural John 7:45 2
ἤχθη ḗchthē Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 8:32 2
ἀγάγετέ agágeté Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 21:2 1
ἀγαγόντα agagónta Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Accusative, Singular, Masculine Hebrews 2:10 1
ἀγαγόντες agagóntes Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 5:27 1
ἀγόμενα agómena Verb, Present, Passive, Participle, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 2 Timothy 3:6 1
ἀχθήσεσθε achthḗsesthe Verb, Future, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 10:18 1
ἄγε áge Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 2 Timothy 4:11 1
ἄγειν ágein Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive Acts 23:10 1
ἄγεσθαι ágesthai Verb, Present, Passive, Infinitive Acts 21:34 1
ἄγεσθε ágesthe Verb, Present, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Galatians 5:18 1
ἄγοντες ágontes Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine Acts 21:16 1
ἄγουσι ágousi Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural John 8:3 1
ἄγω ágō Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 1st person, Singular John 19:4 1
ἄγωσιν ágōsin Verb, Present, Active, Subjunctive, 3rd person, Plural Mark 13:11 1
ἄξει áxei Verb, Future, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 Thessalonians 4:14 1
ἄξων áxōn Verb, Future, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine Acts 22:5 1
ἤγεσθε ḗgesthe Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 1 Corinthians 12:2 1
ἤγετο ḗgeto Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 4:1 1
ἤγοντο ḗgonto Verb, Imperfect, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural Luke 23:32 1
ἦγεν ē̂gen Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Acts 5:26 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G71, 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.

Derived from this word

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 αγω appears 159 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 151 verses in 27 books.

159
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
151
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
27 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 27 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G71) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 151. 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 (G71) 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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