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Greek verb · G321

ἀνάγω

anagoan-ag'-o

to lead

23 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: anágō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G321is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 11
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G321

to lead up; by extension to bring out; specially, to sail away

The King James renders it: bring (again, forth, up again), depart, launch (forth), lead (up), loose, offer, sail, set forth, take up.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

anago is rendered "to lead". It stands 23 times in the Greek text, across five books.

  • Seventeen of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

Matthew 4:1ἀνήχθη

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Seventeen of the word's twenty-three uses are in Acts.

The other 22 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • Having brought2
  • Having sailed2
  • they brought2
  • having led up1
  • having set sail1
  • he sailed1
  • offered1
  • on setting sail1
  • sailed1
  • sailing1
  • they launched out1
  • to bring out1

and 8 more, 23 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἀναγινώσκωanaginoskoto readUses32
ἀνάγκηanankenecessityUses17
ἀναγγέλλωanangelloto reportUses14
ἀναγκάζωanankazoto compelUses9
ἀναγκαῖοςanankaiosnecessaryUses8
ἀνάγνωσιςanagnosisreadingUses3
ἀναγεννάωanagennaoto begetUses2
ἀναγκαστῶςanankastosnecessarilyUses1
ἀναγνωρίζομαιanagnorizomaito recognizeUses1

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἀνήχθημεν4
  • Ἀναχθέντες3
  • ἀνήγαγον3
  • ἀναγαγεῖν2
  • ἀναγαγὼν2
  • ἀνάγεσθαι2
  • ἀναχθῆναι2
  • ἀνήχθη2
  • ἀναγαγών1
  • ἀναγομένοις1
  • ἀνήχθησαν1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person plural4V-API-1P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-2AAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular3V-2AAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3V-APP-NPM
  • verb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-2AAN
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-API-3S
  • verb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)2V-APN
  • verb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PPN
  • verb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-API-3P
  • verb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1V-PPP-DPM

Matthew

one use
  • Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

    Matthew 4:1

    • ἀνήχθηanechtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: was led up

Luke

three uses
  • And when the time of purification according to the Law of Moses was complete, His parents brought Him to Jerusalem to present Him to the Lord

    Luke 2:22

    • ἀνήγαγονanegagonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they brought
  • Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world.

    Luke 4:5

    • ἀναγαγὼνanagagonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having led up
  • One day Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross to the other side of the lake.” So He got into a boat with them and set out.

    Luke 8:22

    • ἀνήχθησανanechthesanverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they launched out

Acts

seventeen uses
  • At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

    Acts 7:41

    • ἀνήγαγονanegagonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: offered
  • So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.

    Acts 9:39

    • ἀνήγαγονanegagonverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they brought
  • He arrested him and put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

    Acts 12:4

    • ἀναγαγεῖνanagageinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring out
  • After setting sail from Paphos, Paul and his companions came to Perga in Pamphylia, where John left them to return to Jerusalem.

    Acts 13:13

    • Ἀναχθέντεςanachthentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Having sailed
  • We sailed from Troas straight to Samothrace, and the following day on to Neapolis.

    Acts 16:11

    • Ἀναχθέντεςanachthentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Having sailed
  • Then he brought them into his home and set a meal before them. So he and all his household rejoiced that they had come to believe in God.

    Acts 16:34

    • ἀναγαγώνanagagonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Having brought
  • But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

    Acts 18:21

    • ἀνήχθηanechtheverb · aorist passive, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he sailed
  • where he stayed three months. And when the Jews formed a plot against him as he was about to sail for Syria, he decided to go back through Macedonia.

    Acts 20:3

    • ἀνάγεσθαιanagesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to sail
  • We went on ahead to the ship and sailed to Assos, where we were to take Paul aboard. He had arranged this because he was going there on foot.

    Acts 20:13

    • ἀνήχθημενanechthemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: sailed
  • After we had torn ourselves away from them, we sailed directly to Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

    Acts 21:1

    • ἀναχθῆναιanachthenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: sailing
  • Finding a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we boarded it and set sail.

    Acts 21:2

    • ἀνήχθημενanechthemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we set sail
  • We boarded an Adramyttian ship about to sail for ports along the coast of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.

    Acts 27:2

    • ἀνήχθημενanechthemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we set sail —
  • After putting out from there, we sailed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us.

    Acts 27:4

    • ἀναχθέντεςanachthentesverb · aorist passive, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: having set sail
  • Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided to sail on, if somehow they could reach Phoenix to winter there. Phoenix was a harbor in Crete facing both southwest and northwest.

    Acts 27:12

    • ἀναχθῆναιanachthenaiverb · aorist passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to set sail
  • After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.

    Acts 27:21

    • ἀνάγεσθαιanagesthaiverb · present passive, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to have set sail
  • The islanders honored us in many ways and supplied our needs when we were ready to sail.

    Acts 28:10

    • ἀναγομένοιςanagomenoisverb · present passive, participle · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: on setting sail
  • After three months we set sail in an Alexandrian ship that had wintered in the island. It had the Twin Brothers as a figurehead.

    Acts 28:11

    • ἀνήχθημενanechthemenverb · aorist passive, indicative · 1st person pluraltagged: we set out

Romans

one use
  • or, ‘Who will descend into the Abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”

    Romans 10:7

    • ἀναγαγεῖνanagageinverb · aorist active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to bring up

Hebrews

one use
  • Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,

    Hebrews 13:20

    • ἀναγαγὼνanagagonverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having brought

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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