ἑτεροδιδασκαλέω
to teach differently
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (50%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (50%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 2 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2085 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
1 Timothy 2 verses
- 1 Timothy 1:3 ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖν pres act inf As I exhorted you to stay at Ephesus when I was going into Macedonia, that you might charge certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
- 1 Timothy 6:3 ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖ pres act ind 3sg 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,
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.
ετεροδιδασκαλεω (heterodidaskaléō) is a Greek verb most often rendered “to teach differently.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 2 verses. It clusters heavily in 1 Timothy, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in 1 Timothy 1:3. It clusters with ετερος, ετερογλωσσος and ετεροζυγεω under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2085 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Timothy 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 100%
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: Other doctrine 1×, Teach otherwise 1×, They teach 1×
- American Standard Version: Different doctrine 1×, Teach 1×, Teacheth a different 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Teach false doctrines 1×, Teaches another doctrine 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Is teaching differently 1×, Teach differently 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2085 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2085 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2085 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2085 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- to teach other or different doctrine
Word origin
Derived from ετερος (héteros) (G2087) — another.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2085 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖ heterodidaskaleî | Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | 1 Timothy 6:3 | 1 |
| ἑτεροδιδασκαλεῖν heterodidaskaleîn | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | 1 Timothy 1:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2085, 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
- ετερογλωσσος heteróglōssos G2084 foreigner
- ετεροζυγεω heterozygéō G2086 to be unequally yoked
- ετερως hetérōs G2088 otherwise
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
