G1320 – didaskalos – διδάσκαλος – a teacher
- Strong’s ID:
- G1320
- Greek Word:
- διδάσκαλος
- Transliteration:
- didaskalos
- Pronunciation:
- did-as’-kal-os
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Etymology:
- from G1321
- Usage Count:
- 58
- Search:
- Find “didaskalos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Equip God’s People Greek Lexicon
a teacher
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Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1321; an instructor (genitive case or specially):—doctor, master, teacher.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) a teacher
2) in the NT one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man
1a) one who is fitted to teach, or thinks himself so
1b) the teachers of the Jewish religion
1c) of those who by their great power as teachers draw crowds around them, i.e. John the Baptist, Jesus
1d) by preeminence used of Jesus by himself, as one who showed men the way of salvation
1e) of the apostles, and of Paul
1f) of those who in the religious assemblies of the Christians, undertook the work of teaching, with the special assistance of the Holy Spirit
1g) of false teachers among Christians
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.