μαθητεύω
to disciple
‘to disciple’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (25%)
- Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (25%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 4 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3100 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 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 3 verses
- Matthew 13:52 μαθητευθεὶς aor pass ptcp nom sg masc He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
- Matthew 27:57 ἐμαθητεύθη aor pass ind 3sg When evening had come, a rich man from Arimathaea, named Joseph, who himself was also Jesus' disciple came.
- Matthew 28:19 μαθητεύσατε aor act impv 2pl Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Acts 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.
“to disciple” is the headline sense of the Greek verb μαθητευω (mathēteúō). The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. It clusters heavily in Matthew, which alone accounts for 75% of its uses. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 13:52. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3100 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 →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
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 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
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: Disciple 1×, Had taught 1×, Is instructed 1×
- American Standard Version: ' disciple 1×, Had made 1×, Hath been made a disciple 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Has been discipled 1×, Made many disciples 1×, Make disciples 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Disciple 1×, Disciples 1×, Having been discipled 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3100 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3100 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3100 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3100 across 5 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.
- to follow his precepts and instructions
- to teach, instruct
Word origin
Derived from μαθητης (mathētḗs) (G3101) — disciple.
From G3101 ; intransitively to become a pupil ; transitively to disciple that is enrol as scholar : - be disciple instruct teach.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G3100 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μαθητευθεὶς mathēteutheìs | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 13:52 | 1 |
| μαθητεύσαντες mathēteúsantes | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 14:21 | 1 |
| μαθητεύσατε mathēteúsate | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Matthew 28:19 | 1 |
| ἐμαθητεύθη emathēteúthē | Verb, Aorist, Passive, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 27:57 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3100, 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.
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Shares the same root
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