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agros denotes a field or rural tract, including land used for sowing, work, travel, or ownership.
The term most often denotes a concrete field or rural tract: a place for crops, labor, travel, or landholding. In the explanation of a parable, it is also used for the world as the setting in which the seed and weeds appear.
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A field or rural tract · dominant
The forms occur for land where seed is sown in Matthew 13:24, where a slave comes in after plowing or shepherding in Luke 17:7, and where an elder son is located in Luke 15:25. They also identify land as something bought, sold, or left behind, as in Acts 4:37, Luke 14:18, and Mark 10:29; in Mark 6:36 the APB renders the surrounding destination as "surrounding fields and villages."
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The world in a parable's explanation · rare
In Matthew 13:38, the nominative singular form stands in the identifying clause, "The field is the world," explaining the setting of the parable's good seed and weeds. This is a figurative assignment within that explanation rather than a different physical location.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB commonly presents the setting as "field" or "fields," while Mark 5:14 uses "countryside" and Luke 23:26 uses "country." These variations show its verse-level presentation rather than separate definitions.