μαθητής
disciple
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
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3101 appears in the Book of John — 73 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 1:35 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
- John 1:37 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.
- John 2:2 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Jesus also was invited, with his disciples, to the marriage.
- John 2:11 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
- John 2:12 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
- John 2:17 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
- John 2:22 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
- John 3:22 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.
- John 3:25 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
- John 4:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 4:2 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
- John 4:8 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
- John 4:27 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
- John 4:31 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
- John 4:33 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
- John 6:3 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples.
- John 6:8 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
- John 6:12 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost."
- John 6:16 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea,
- John 6:22 μαθηταῖς μαθηταὶ n dat pl masc n nom pl masc On the next day, the multitude that stood on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other boat there, except the one in which his disciples had embarked, and that Jesus hadn't entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had gone away alone.
- John 6:24 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When the multitude therefore saw that Jesus wasn't there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.
- John 6:60 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?"
- John 6:61 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?
- John 6:66 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- John 7:3 μαθηταί n nom pl masc His brothers therefore said to him, "Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.
- John 8:31 μαθηταί n nom pl masc Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
- John 9:2 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
- John 9:27 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his disciples, do you?"
- John 9:28 μαθητὴς μαθηταί n nom sg masc n nom pl masc They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
- John 11:7 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."
- John 11:8 μαθηταί n nom pl masc The disciples told him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"
- John 11:12 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples therefore said, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover."
- John 11:54 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
- John 12:4 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Then Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, one of his disciples, who would betray him, said,
- John 12:16 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
- John 13:5 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
- John 13:22 μαθηταί n nom pl masc The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
- John 13:23 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
- John 13:35 μαθηταί n nom pl masc By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
- John 15:8 μαθηταί n nom pl masc "In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
- John 16:17 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Some of his disciples therefore said to one another, "What is this that he says to us, 'A little while, and you won't see me, and again a little while, and you will see me;' and, 'Because I go to the Father?'"
- John 16:29 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples said to him, "Behold, now you speak plainly, and speak no figures of speech.
- John 18:1 μαθηταῖς μαθηταὶ n dat pl masc n nom pl masc When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
- John 18:2 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often resorted there with his disciples.
- John 18:15 μαθητής μαθητὴς n nom sg masc n nom sg masc Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;
- John 18:16 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc but Peter was standing at the door outside. So the other disciple, who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to her who kept the door, and brought in Peter.
- John 18:17 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Then the maid who kept the door said to Peter, "Are you also one of this man's disciples?" He said, "I am not."
- John 18:19 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples, and about his teaching.
- John 18:25 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him, "You aren't also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it, and said, "I am not."
- John 19:26 μαθητὴν n acc sg masc Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!"
- John 19:27 μαθητῇ μαθητὴς n dat sg masc n nom sg masc Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.
- John 19:38 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus' body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.
- John 20:2 μαθητὴν n acc sg masc Therefore she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have laid him!"
- John 20:3 μαθητής n nom sg masc Therefore Peter and the other disciple went out, and they went toward the tomb.
- John 20:4 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc They both ran together. The other disciple outran Peter, and came to the tomb first.
- John 20:8 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
- John 20:10 μαθηταί n nom pl masc So the disciples went away again to their own homes.
- John 20:18 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had said these things to her.
- John 20:19 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, "Peace be to you."
- John 20:20 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad when they saw the Lord.
- John 20:25 μαθηταί n nom pl masc The other disciples therefore said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe."
- John 20:26 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc After eight days again his disciples were inside, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be to you."
- John 20:30 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;
- John 21:1 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.
- John 21:2 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were together.
- John 21:4 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn't know that it was Jesus.
- John 21:7 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It's the Lord!" So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around him (for he was naked), and threw himself into the sea.
- John 21:8 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But the other disciples came in the little boat (for they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away), dragging the net full of fish.
- John 21:12 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Jesus said to them, "Come and eat breakfast." None of the disciples dared inquire of him, "Who are you?" knowing that it was the Lord.
- John 21:14 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc This is now the third time that Jesus was revealed to his disciples, after he had risen from the dead.
- John 21:20 μαθητὴν n acc sg masc Then Peter, turning around, saw a disciple following. This was the disciple whom Jesus sincerely loved, the one who had also leaned on Jesus' breast at the supper and asked, "Lord, who is going to betray You?"
- John 21:23 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc This saying therefore went out among the brothers, that this disciple wouldn't die. Yet Jesus didn't say to him that he wouldn't die, but, "If I desire that he stay until I come, what is that to you?"
- John 21:24 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc This is the disciple who testifies about these things, and wrote these things. We know that his witness is true.
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.
μαθητης (mathētḗs) is a Greek noun most often rendered “disciple.” Debuting at Matthew 5:1, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 246 verses — common. John dominates its distribution — 73 of 246 verses. Related forms include μανθανω, μαθητευω and μαθητρια. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3101 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 →
- 246
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 246 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #61
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 61 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 246 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 246 distinct verses.
- Gospels 220 verses · 89%
- Johannine 73 verses · 30%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 63 verses · 26%
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: Disciples 239×, Disciple 27×
- American Standard Version: Disciples 225×, Disciple 27×, To 8×
- Berean Standard Bible: Disciples 224×, Disciple 27×, Disciples to him 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Disciples 233×, Disciple 27×, To 23×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3101 across 268 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 G3101 across 283 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G3101 across 256 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3101 across 298 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.
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.
- a learner, pupil, disciple
Word origin
Derived from μανθανω (manthánō) (G3129) — to learn.
From G3129 ; a learner that is pupil : - disciple.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms G3101 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μαθηταὶ mathētaì | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 5:1 | 91 |
| μαθητῶν mathētō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 8:21 | 46 |
| μαθηταῖς mathētaîs | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:10 | 41 |
| μαθητὰς mathētàs | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 10:1 | 33 |
| μαθηταί mathētaí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:14 | 17 |
| μαθητὴς mathētḕs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:24 | 13 |
| μαθητής mathētḗs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 14:26 | 7 |
| μαθητάς mathētás | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 12:22 | 6 |
| μαθητὴν mathētḕn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | John 19:26 | 3 |
| μαθητῇ mathētē̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:25 | 3 |
| μαθητοῦ mathētoû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 10:42 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3101, 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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