διδασκαλία
teaching
‘teaching’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine 10 times (48%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine 3 times (14%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine 3 times (14%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine 3 times (14%)
- Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine 1 time (5%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine 1 time (5%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 21 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1319 appears — 21 distinct verses across 8 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 12:7 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem or service, let us give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;
- Romans 15:4 διδασκαλίαν n acc sg fem For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 Timothy 8 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:10 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
- 1 Timothy 4:1 διδασκαλίαις n dat pl fem But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
- 1 Timothy 4:6 διδασκαλίας n gen sg fem If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.
- 1 Timothy 4:13 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
- 1 Timothy 4:16 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
- 1 Timothy 5:17 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.
- 1 Timothy 6:1 διδασκαλία n nom sg fem Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.
- 1 Timothy 6:3 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn't consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
2 Timothy 3 verses
- 2 Timothy 3:10 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem But you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,
- 2 Timothy 3:16 διδασκαλίαν n acc sg fem Every writing inspired by God is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction which is in righteousness,
- 2 Timothy 4:3 διδασκαλίας n gen sg fem For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but, having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts;
Titus 4 verses
- Titus 1:9 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.
- Titus 2:1 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem But say the things which fit sound doctrine,
- Titus 2:7 διδασκαλίᾳ n dat sg fem in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
- Titus 2:10 διδασκαλίαν n acc sg fem not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, διδασκαλια (didaskalía) means “teaching.” Older and newer Bibles part ways — “doctrine” in the King James Version, “teaching” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions. See the renderings breakdown. It appears 21 verses across 8 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to 1 Timothy (38%), then Titus and 2 Timothy. Ranging over 2 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1319 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 8 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 8 of 27 New Testament books.
- #607
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 607 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 21 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 19 verses · 90%
- Gospels 2 verses · 10%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Doctrine 15×, Doctrines 4×
- American Standard Version: Doctrine 10×, Teaching 6×, Doctrines 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Teaching 11×, Doctrine 4×, Instruction 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Teaching 16×, Doctrines 2×, Teachings 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1319 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1319 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1319 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1319 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- teaching, instruction
- teaching
Word origin
Derived from διδασκαλος (didáskalos) (G1320) — teacher.
From G1320 ; instruction (the function or the information): - doctrine learning teaching.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1319 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διδασκαλίᾳ didaskalía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 12:7 | 10 |
| διδασκαλίας didaskalías | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Matthew 15:9 | 6 |
| διδασκαλίαν didaskalían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 15:4 | 3 |
| διδασκαλία didaskalía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Timothy 6:1 | 1 |
| διδασκαλίαις didaskalíais | Noun, Dative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Timothy 4:1 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διδασκαλια appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Proverbs 2:17 διδασκαλία
- Isaiah 29:13 διδασκαλία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1319) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Proverbs 2:17 διδασκαλία Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:
- Isaiah 29:13 διδασκαλία The Lord said, Because this people draw near [to me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught [them];
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1319) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
