διδάσκαλος
teacher
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Vocative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine 31 times (53%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 15 times (25%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (8%)
- Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 4 times (7%)
- Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine 3 times (5%)
- Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine 1 time (2%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 59 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1320 appears — 58 distinct verses across 12 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 12 verses
- Matthew 8:19 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc A scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."
- Matthew 9:11 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
- Matthew 10:24 διδάσκαλον n acc sg masc "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
- Matthew 10:25 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
- Matthew 12:38 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
- Matthew 17:24 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?"
- Matthew 19:16 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Behold, one came to him and said, "Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"
- Matthew 22:16 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.
- Matthew 22:24 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc saying, "Teacher, Moses said, 'If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed for his brother.'
- Matthew 22:36 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"
- Matthew 23:8 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
- Matthew 26:18 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"
Mark 12 verses
- Mark 4:38 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?"
- Mark 5:35 διδάσκαλον n acc sg masc While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter is dead. Why bother the Teacher any more?"
- Mark 9:17 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
- Mark 9:38 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone who doesn't follow us casting out demons in your name; and we forbade him, because he doesn't follow us."
- Mark 10:17 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
- Mark 10:20 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."
- Mark 10:35 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
- Mark 12:14 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc When they had come, they asked him, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don't defer to anyone; for you aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?
- Mark 12:19 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc "Teacher, Moses wrote to us, 'If a man's brother dies, and leaves a wife behind him, and leaves no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.'
- Mark 12:32 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc The scribe said to him, "Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
- Mark 13:1 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
- Mark 14:14 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
Luke 16 verses
- Luke 2:46 διδασκάλων n gen pl masc It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.
- Luke 3:12 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what must we do?"
- Luke 6:40 διδάσκαλον διδάσκαλος n acc sg masc n nom sg masc A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
- Luke 7:40 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you." He said, "Teacher, say on."
- Luke 8:49 διδάσκαλον n acc sg masc While he still spoke, one from the ruler of the synagogue's house came, saying to him, "Your daughter is dead. Don't trouble the Teacher."
- Luke 9:38 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Behold, a man from the crowd called out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look at my son, for he is my only child.
- Luke 10:25 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 11:45 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you insult us also."
- Luke 12:13 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc One of the multitude said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me."
- Luke 18:18 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
- Luke 19:39 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
- Luke 20:21 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc They asked him, "Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren't partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
- Luke 20:28 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc They asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote to us that if a man's brother dies having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up children for his brother.
- Luke 20:39 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Some of the scribes answered, "Teacher, you speak well."
- Luke 21:7 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc They asked him, "Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?"
- Luke 22:11 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc Tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
John 8 verses
- John 1:39 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc He said to them, "Come, and see." They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
- John 3:2 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
- John 3:10 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things?
- John 8:4 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc they told him, "Teacher, we found this woman in adultery, in the very act.
- John 11:28 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc When she had said this, she went away, and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, "The Teacher is here, and is calling you."
- John 13:13 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for so I am.
- John 13:14 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- John 20:16 διδάσκαλε n voc sg masc Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him, "Rhabbouni!" which is to say, "Teacher!"
Acts 1 verse
Romans 1 verse
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 διδασκάλους n acc pl masc God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
- 1 Corinthians 12:29 διδάσκαλοι n nom pl masc Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
2 Timothy 2 verses
- 2 Timothy 1:11 διδάσκαλος n nom sg masc For this, I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
- 2 Timothy 4:3 διδασκάλους n acc pl masc 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;
Hebrews 1 verse
James 1 verse
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.
“teacher” is the headline sense of the Greek noun διδασκαλος (didáskalos). Where the King James Version says “master,” newer translations reach for “teacher” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 58 verses — moderately common. More than a quarter of its appearances fall in Luke. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1320 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 →
- 58
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 58 distinct verses.
- 12 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 12 of 27 New Testament books.
- #275
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 275 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 58 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 58 distinct verses.
- Gospels 48 verses · 83%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 17 verses · 29%
- Johannine 8 verses · 14%
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 12%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 2%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 2%
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: Master 46×, Teachers 6×, Teacher 4×
- American Standard Version: Teacher 46×, Teachers 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Teacher 51×, Teachers 8×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Teacher 50×, Teachers 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1320 across 58 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 G1320 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1320 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1320 across 58 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- a teacher
- in the NT one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man
Word origin
Derived from διδασκω (didáskō) (G1321) — to teach.
From G1321 ; an instructor (generally or specifically): - doctor master teacher.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1320 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| διδάσκαλε didáskale | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 8:19 | 31 |
| διδάσκαλος didáskalos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 9:11 | 15 |
| διδάσκαλον didáskalon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:24 | 5 |
| διδάσκαλοι didáskaloi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 13:1 | 4 |
| διδασκάλους didaskálous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 12:28 | 3 |
| διδασκάλων didaskálōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Luke 2:46 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1320, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word διδασκαλος appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Esther 6:1 διδάσκαλος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1320) 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.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1320) 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.
