Lexicon sagéné: a dragnet Original Word: σαγήνη, ης, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: sagéné Phonetic Spelling: (sag-ay'-nay) Short Definition: a fishing-net Definition: a fishing-net. HELPS word-Studies 4522 sagḗnē – a weighted-net, drawn in as a drag-net. 4522 /sagḗnē ("drag-net") is a much larger net than the usual "casting net" (293 /amphíblēstron). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definitiona dragnet NASB Translationdragnet (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4522: σαγήνησαγήνη, σαγηνης, ἡ ( σάσσω to load, fill), a large fishing-net, a drag-net ( Vulg.sagena (cf. English seine)), used in catching fish that swim in shoals (cf. B. D., under the word ; Trench, Synonyms, § lxiv.): Matthew 13:47. (The Sept.; Plutarch, solert. anim., p. 977 f.; Lucian, pisc. 51; Tim. 22; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 14; Aelian h. a. 11, 12; (βάλλειν σαγηνης Babrius fab. 4, 1; 9, 6).)
Strong's net. From a derivative of satto (to equip) meaning furniture, especially a pack-saddle (which in the East is merely a bag of netted rope); a "seine" for fishing -- net. |
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