agros · field, countryside

What it means

agros (ἀγρός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “field, countryside”.

Field, farmland; in the plural, the countryside and its farms.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Land that is sown or worked and belongs to someone.
2. Rural land, outside the city.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• field ×23
• fields ×5
• countryside ×4
• country ×3
• farms ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×17
• Mark×9
• Luke×9
• Acts×1

• Matthew 6:28

  And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not labor nor spin;

• Matthew 6:30

  But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into an oven, will he not much more clothe you, you of little faith?

• Matthew 13:24

  He put before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven has become like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

• Matthew 13:27

  And the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, ‘Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where does it get darnel?’

• Matthew 13:31

  He put before them another parable, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard, which a man took and sowed in his field;

• Matthew 13:36

  Then leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.”

• Matthew 13:38

  and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the darnel are the sons of the evil one;

• Matthew 13:44

  The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid; and in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

• Matthew 19:29

  And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.

• Matthew 22:5

  But they paid no attention and went off, one to his own field, another to his business;

• Matthew 24:18

  and let the one in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

• Matthew 24:40

  Then two will be in the field; one is taken and one is left.

• Matthew 27:7

  And after taking counsel, they bought with them the Potter’s Field as a burial place for the foreigners.

• Matthew 27:8

  Therefore that field has been called Field of Blood to this day.

• Matthew 27:10

  and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”

• Mark 5:14

  And those who tended them fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside; and people came to see what it was that had happened.

• Mark 6:36

  send them away, so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

• Mark 6:56

  And wherever he went, into villages or into towns or into the countryside, they were laying the sick in the marketplaces, and begging him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched him were made well.

• Mark 10:29

  Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for the sake of me and for the sake of the good news

• Mark 10:30

  who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.

• Mark 11:8

  And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.

• Mark 13:16

  and let the one in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

• Mark 15:21

  And they compel a passerby, a certain Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross.

• Mark 16:12

  After these things he appeared in another form to two of them as they were walking, going into the country.

• Luke 8:34

  And when those who were tending them saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside.

• Luke 9:12

  Now the day began to decline, and the Twelve came and said to him, “Send away the crowd, so that going into the surrounding villages and farms, they may find lodging and find provisions; because here we are in a deserted place.”

• Luke 12:28

  But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you of little faith!

• Luke 14:18

  And they all began alike to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I have need to go out and see it; I ask you, have me excused.’

• Luke 15:15

  And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

• Luke 15:25

  Now his older son was in the field; and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

• Luke 17:7

  “Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, is there who will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?

• Luke 17:31

  On that day, the one who is on the housetop, and his goods in the house, must not come down to take them; and likewise the one in the field must not turn back to the things behind.

• Luke 23:26

  And as they led him away, they seized a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the country, and put the cross on him to carry it behind Jesus.

• Acts 4:37

  since he had a field, sold it, brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.

And 2 more times.