Strong G687ἆρα
no?
- Transliteration
- ara
- Pronunciation
- ar'-ah
- Morphology
- Greek Particle - Negative
Definition
A form of G686 denoting an interrogation to which a negative answer is presumed: - therefore.
Detailed definition
ἆρα,
interrog. particle,
implying anxiety or impatience, "quite rare and only in Luke and Paul, therefore a literary word" (Bl., §77, 2).
1. (num igitur) expecting a neg. reply, Luk.18:8; ἆρά γε, Act.8:30.
2. (ergone) in apodosis, expecting an affirm. reply, Gal.2:17 (Bl., l.with; Lft., Ga., in l.; MM, see word).
† (AS)
interrog. particle,
implying anxiety or impatience, "quite rare and only in Luke and Paul, therefore a literary word" (Bl., §77, 2).
1. (num igitur) expecting a neg. reply, Luk.18:8; ἆρά γε, Act.8:30.
2. (ergone) in apodosis, expecting an affirm. reply, Gal.2:17 (Bl., l.with; Lft., Ga., in l.; MM, see word).
† (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G687 appears in 19 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- then3
- manner2
- therefore2
- haply1
- man1
- perhaps1
- shall1
First verses
- Matthew 18:1At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
- Matthew 19:25When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?
- Matthew 19:27Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
- Matthew 24:45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
- Mark 4:41And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?
- Mark 11:13And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
- Luke 1:66And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.
- Luke 8:25And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.
- Luke 12:42And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
- Luke 18:8I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
- Luke 22:23And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.
- Acts 7:1Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
- Acts 8:22Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- Acts 8:30And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?
- Acts 12:18Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become of Peter.
- Acts 17:27That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
- Acts 21:38Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
- 2 Corinthians 1:17When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?
- Galatians 2:17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἆρᾰ,
interrogative Particle, implying anxiety or impatience, = Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ἦ ῥα:
1 alone, it simply marks the question, the nature of which is determined by the context: e.g. in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.44)] a negative answer is implied in the question ἆρ᾽ ἂν οἴεσθε..; but an affirmative in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.4)] ἆ. βέβληκα δὶς ἐφεξῆ; compare ἆρ᾽ εὐτυχεῖς.. ἢ δυστυχεῖ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 424.—To make it plainly _negative_, we have ἆ. μή..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 208, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 64c)]; and to make it plainly affirmative, ἆρ᾽ ο; ἆρ᾽ οὐχ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 791, “OT” 540)]; ἆρ᾽ οὐχ οὕτω; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 11d.)]
2 ἆ. οὖ; is used to draw an affirmative inference, [Refs ([prev. author] “Grg.” 477a, “La.” 190b)]; also when a negative answer is expected, [Refs ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 159b)]; with a negative, ἆρ᾽ οὖν οὐ..; [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 263a, etc.)]
3 in ἆρά γε, each Particle retains its force, γε serving to make the question more definite, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 546, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.5.4, etc.)]
4 less frequently with τίς interrogative, τίνος ποτ᾽ ἆρ᾽ ἔπραξε χειρί[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 905)]; τίδ᾽ ἆρ᾽ ἐγὼ σ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1228; τίς ἆρ᾽ ὁ φεύγω; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 893)]; with ἤν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 118.)]
5 in indirect questions, σκεψώμεθα τοῦτο ἆ... [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 70e, compare “R.” 526c, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 204b3, etc.)]
II in Poets sometimes like{ἄρα}, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 86, 89, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 3; τοιοῖσδε χρησμοῖς ἆ. χρὴ πεποιθένα; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 297, compare 435; τῷ δὲ ξιφήρης ἆρ᾽ ὑφειστήκει λόχος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1114: in exclamations, βραδεῖαν ἡμᾶς ἆρ᾽ ὁ τήνδε τὴν ὁδὸν πέμπων ἔπεμψεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 738; ὀδυνηρὸς ἆρ᾽ ὁ πλοῦτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 566, compare “El.” 1229, “Hipp.” 1086; ἦ δεινὸν ἆρ᾽ ἦν [prev. author] “fragment” 931; ἔμελλόν σ᾽ ἆ. κινήσειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1301, compare “Ach.” 347.)]
B In Prose, ἆ. almost always stands first in the sentence, but[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 467e)]; καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτων ἆ... [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.61c: in Poetry greater licence is taken, see above 1.4, 11.)]
interrogative Particle, implying anxiety or impatience, = Epic dialect and Lyric poetry ἦ ῥα:
1 alone, it simply marks the question, the nature of which is determined by the context: e.g. in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.44)] a negative answer is implied in the question ἆρ᾽ ἂν οἴεσθε..; but an affirmative in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.4)] ἆ. βέβληκα δὶς ἐφεξῆ; compare ἆρ᾽ εὐτυχεῖς.. ἢ δυστυχεῖ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 424.—To make it plainly _negative_, we have ἆ. μή..; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 208, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 64c)]; and to make it plainly affirmative, ἆρ᾽ ο; ἆρ᾽ οὐχ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 791, “OT” 540)]; ἆρ᾽ οὐχ οὕτω; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 11d.)]
2 ἆ. οὖ; is used to draw an affirmative inference, [Refs ([prev. author] “Grg.” 477a, “La.” 190b)]; also when a negative answer is expected, [Refs ([prev. author] “Chrm.” 159b)]; with a negative, ἆρ᾽ οὖν οὐ..; [Refs ([prev. author] “Phdr.” 263a, etc.)]
3 in ἆρά γε, each Particle retains its force, γε serving to make the question more definite, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 546, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.5.4, etc.)]
4 less frequently with τίς interrogative, τίνος ποτ᾽ ἆρ᾽ ἔπραξε χειρί[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 905)]; τίδ᾽ ἆρ᾽ ἐγὼ σ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1228; τίς ἆρ᾽ ὁ φεύγω; 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 893)]; with ἤν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 118.)]
5 in indirect questions, σκεψώμεθα τοῦτο ἆ... [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 70e, compare “R.” 526c, +others, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 204b3, etc.)]
II in Poets sometimes like{ἄρα}, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 86, 89, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 3; τοιοῖσδε χρησμοῖς ἆ. χρὴ πεποιθένα; 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 297, compare 435; τῷ δὲ ξιφήρης ἆρ᾽ ὑφειστήκει λόχος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1114: in exclamations, βραδεῖαν ἡμᾶς ἆρ᾽ ὁ τήνδε τὴν ὁδὸν πέμπων ἔπεμψεν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 738; ὀδυνηρὸς ἆρ᾽ ὁ πλοῦτος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 566, compare “El.” 1229, “Hipp.” 1086; ἦ δεινὸν ἆρ᾽ ἦν [prev. author] “fragment” 931; ἔμελλόν σ᾽ ἆ. κινήσειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1301, compare “Ach.” 347.)]
B In Prose, ἆ. almost always stands first in the sentence, but[Refs 5th c.BC+ (compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 467e)]; καὶ ὑπὲρ τούτων ἆ... [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 2.61c: in Poetry greater licence is taken, see above 1.4, 11.)]