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 Luke — 37 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.
Luke
- Luke 5:30 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?"
- Luke 5:33 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
- Luke 6:1 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Now it happened on the second Sabbath after the first, that he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands.
- Luke 6:13 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:
- Luke 6:17 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc He came down with them, and stood on a level place, with a crowd of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
- Luke 6:20 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said, "Blessed are you who are poor, For yours is the Kingdom of God.
- Luke 6:40 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.
- Luke 7:11 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc It happened soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain. Many of his disciples, along with a great multitude, went with him.
- Luke 7:18 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples of John told him about all these things.
- Luke 7:19 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc John, calling to himself two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus, saying, "Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for another?"
- Luke 8:9 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"
- Luke 8:22 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Now it happened on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples, and he said to them, "Let's go over to the other side of the lake." So they launched out.
- Luke 9:14 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc For they were about five thousand men. He said to his disciples, "Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each."
- Luke 9:16 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- Luke 9:18 μαθηταί n nom pl masc It happened, as he was praying alone, that the disciples were with him, and he asked them, "Who do the multitudes say that I am?"
- Luke 9:40 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't."
- Luke 9:43 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc They were all astonished at the majesty of God. But while all were marveling at all the things which Jesus did, he said to his disciples,
- Luke 9:54 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"
- Luke 10:22 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
- Luke 10:23 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
- Luke 11:1 μαθητῶν μαθητὰς n gen pl masc n acc pl masc It happened, that when he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."
- Luke 12:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Luke 12:22 μαθητάς n acc pl masc He said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, don't be anxious for your life, what you will eat, nor yet for your body, what you will wear.
- Luke 14:26 μαθητής n nom sg masc "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't hate his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
- Luke 14:27 μαθητής n nom sg masc Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
- Luke 14:33 μαθητής n nom sg masc So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
- Luke 16:1 μαθητάς n acc pl masc He also said to his disciples, "There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
- Luke 17:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!
- Luke 17:22 μαθητάς n acc pl masc He said to the disciples, "The days will come, when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.
- Luke 18:15 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc They were also bringing their babies to him, that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
- Luke 19:29 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
- Luke 19:37 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
- Luke 19:39 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
- Luke 20:45 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,
- Luke 22:11 μαθητῶν n gen pl 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?"'
- Luke 22:39 μαθηταί n nom pl masc He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.
- Luke 22:45 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,
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.
Derives from
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