UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: ἄγρα; -ας

Related lemmas: ἀγρεύω

Sense 1: to catch, a catch

Semantic entry: 18.8

Semantic domains: Attachment

Subdomains: Grasp, Hold

Definition: the act of catching something

Notes: Though in Greek the term ἄγρα may be used to refer to the catching of a wide variety of objects, in the context of OET LUK 5:4 the reference is to fish, and one must make certain that the appropriate term in the receptor language is employed, depending, for example, whether one catches fish, animals, or people.

Show passage in OET: LUK 5:4

OET-RV LUK 5:4

4 Once he’d finished his speaking, he told Shim’on, “Go out to the deeper parts and lower your nets to catch some fish.”

OET-LV LUK 5:4

4 And when he _ceased speaking, he _said to the Simōn:
Set _out into the depth and lower the nets of _you _all for a_catch.

Show passage in OET: LUK 5:9

OET-RV LUK 5:9

9 Kefa and all those with him were stunned at the size of the catch,

OET-LV LUK 5:9

9 For/Because amazement seized him and all the ones with him, at the catch of _the fishes which they _captured,

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἄγρα

Form 1

Sense 1: to catch, a catch