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.
38 verses where G3101 appears in the Nominative case in the Book of Matthew. Filtered view — show all forms. 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
- Matthew 5:1 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.
- Matthew 8:23 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.
- Matthew 9:14 μαθηταὶ μαθηταί n nom pl masc n nom pl masc Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
- Matthew 9:19 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Jesus got up and followed him, as did his disciples.
- Matthew 10:24 μαθητὴς n nom sg masc "A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.
- Matthew 12:1 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.
- Matthew 12:2 μαθηταί n nom pl masc But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."
- Matthew 13:10 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples came, and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"
- Matthew 13:36 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then Jesus sent the multitudes away, and went into the house. His disciples came to him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field."
- Matthew 14:12 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples came, and took the body, and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.
- Matthew 14:15 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When evening had come, his disciples came to him, saying, "This place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves food."
- Matthew 14:19 μαθηταῖς μαθηταὶ n dat pl masc n nom pl masc He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass; and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, broke and gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
- Matthew 15:2 μαθηταί n nom pl masc "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."
- Matthew 15:12 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
- Matthew 15:23 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, "Send her away; for she cries after us."
- Matthew 15:33 μαθηταί n nom pl masc The disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?"
- Matthew 15:36 μαθηταῖς μαθηταὶ n dat pl masc n nom pl masc and he took the seven loaves and the fish. He gave thanks and broke them, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.
- Matthew 16:5 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.
- Matthew 17:6 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces, and were very afraid.
- Matthew 17:10 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
- Matthew 17:13 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the Baptizer.
- Matthew 17:19 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, "Why weren't we able to cast it out?"
- Matthew 18:1 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
- Matthew 19:10 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
- Matthew 19:13 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Then little children were brought to him, that he should lay his hands on them and pray; and the disciples rebuked them.
- Matthew 19:25 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When the disciples heard it, they were exceedingly astonished, saying, "Who then can be saved?"
- Matthew 21:6 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
- Matthew 21:20 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"
- Matthew 24:1 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
- Matthew 24:3 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
- Matthew 26:8 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?
- Matthew 26:17 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Now on the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus, saying to him, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
- Matthew 26:19 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc The disciples did as Jesus commanded them, and they prepared the Passover.
- Matthew 26:35 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Peter said to him, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you." All of the disciples also said likewise.
- Matthew 26:56 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- Matthew 27:64 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc Command therefore that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest perhaps his disciples come at night and steal him away, and tell the people, 'He is risen from the dead;' and the last deception will be worse than the first."
- Matthew 28:13 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc saying, "Say that his disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.
- Matthew 28:16 μαθηταὶ n nom pl masc But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them.
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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