Original Word: ἀγγαρεύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: aggareuó
Pronunciation: ang-gar-YOO-oh
Phonetic Spelling: (ang-ar-yew'-o)
KJV: compel (to go)
NASB: pressed into service, forces
Word Origin: [of foreign origin]

1. (properly) to be a courier
2. (by implication) to press into public service

Hagar.

Of foreign origin (compare 'iggra'); properly, to be a courier, i.e. (by implication) to press into public service -- compel (to go).

see HEBREW 'iggra'

Word Origin
of Pers. origin, cf. iggerah
Definition
to impress, compel
NASB Translation
forces (1), pressed into service (2).STRONGS NT 29: ἀγγαρεύω

ἀγγαρεύω; future ἀγγαρεύσω; 1 aorist ἠγγάρευσα; to employ a courier, despatch a mounted messenger. A word of Persian origin (used by Menander, Sicyon. 4), but adopted also into Latin (Vulg.angariare). Ἄγγαροι were public couriers (tabellarii), stationed by appointment of the king of Persia at fixed localities, with horses ready for use, in order to transmit royal messages from one to another and so convey them the more speedily to their destination. See Herodotus 8, 98 (and Rawlinson's note); Xenophon, Cyril 8, 6, 17 (9); cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus under the word אִגֶרֶת; (B. D. under the word

Matthew 5:41 V-FIA-3S
GRK: ὅστις σε ἀγγαρεύσει μίλιον ἕν
NAS: Whoever forces you to go one mile,
KJV: shall compel thee to go a mile,
INT: whoever you will compel to go mile one

Matthew 27:32 V-AIA-3P
GRK: Σίμωνα τοῦτον ἠγγάρευσαν ἵνα ἄρῃ
NAS: whom they pressed into service to bear
KJV: by name: him they compelled to bear
INT: Simon him they compelled that he might carry

Mark 15:21 V-PIA-3P
GRK: καὶ ἀγγαρεύουσιν παράγοντά τινα
NAS: They pressed into service a passer-by
KJV: And they compel one Simon
INT: And they compel passing by one

Strong's Greek 29
3 Occurrences

ἀγγαρεύουσιν — 1 Occ.
ἀγγαρεύσει — 1 Occ.
ἠγγάρευσαν — 1 Occ.