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.
42 distinct verses where G3101 appears in the Accusative case, across 5 books. 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 9 verses
- Matthew 10:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
- Matthew 12:49 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers!
- Matthew 14:22 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.
- Matthew 15:32 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way."
- Matthew 16:13 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?"
- Matthew 21:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc When they drew near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,
- Matthew 22:16 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter who you teach, for you aren't partial to anyone.
- Matthew 26:40 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?
- Matthew 26:45 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Then he came to his disciples, and said to them, "Sleep on now, and take your rest. Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Mark 7 verses
- Mark 6:45 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat, and to go ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself sent the multitude away.
- Mark 8:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc In those days, when there was a very great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to himself, and said to them,
- Mark 8:27 μαθηταὶ μαθητὰς n nom pl masc n acc pl masc Jesus went out, with his disciples, into the villages of Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that I am?"
- Mark 8:33 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men."
- Mark 9:14 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.
- Mark 9:31 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc For he was teaching his disciples, and said to them, "The Son of Man is being handed over to the hands of men, and they will kill him; and when he is killed, on the third day he will rise again."
- Mark 12:43 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc He called his disciples to himself, and said to them, "Most assuredly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
Luke 14 verses
- 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 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 6:20 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 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 9:43 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 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 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 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,
John 4 verses
- 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 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 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 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?"
Acts 8 verses
- Acts 9:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
- Acts 11:26 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc When he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. It happened, that for a whole year they were gathered together with the assembly, and taught many people. The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.
- Acts 18:23 μαθητάς n acc pl masc Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.
- Acts 19:1 μαθητάς n acc pl masc It happened that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper country, came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples.
- Acts 19:9 μαθητάς n acc pl masc But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.
- Acts 20:1 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.
- Acts 20:30 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
- Acts 21:4 μαθητὰς n acc pl masc Having found disciples, we stayed there seven days. These said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.
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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