διδάσκαλος
teacher
‘teacher’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-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.
Every verse where G1320 appears in the Book of John — 8 distinct verses. 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.
John
- 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!"
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.
