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.
44 distinct verses where G3101 appears in the Dative 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 18 verses
- Matthew 9:10 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc It happened as he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.
- Matthew 9:11 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
- Matthew 9:37 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
- Matthew 10:25 μαθητῇ n dat sg masc It is enough for the disciple that he be like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more those of his household!
- Matthew 11:1 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc It happened that when Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
- 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 15:36 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 16:20 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then he charged the disciples that they should tell no one that he is Jesus the Christ.
- Matthew 16:21 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
- Matthew 16:24 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Matthew 17:16 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
- Matthew 19:23 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Jesus said to his disciples, "Most assuredly I say to you, a rich man will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven with difficulty.
- Matthew 23:1 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
- Matthew 26:1 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,
- Matthew 26:26 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
- Matthew 26:36 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go there and pray."
- Matthew 28:7 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Go quickly and tell his disciples, 'He has risen from the dead, and behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there you will see him.' Behold, I have told you."
- Matthew 28:8 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
Mark 11 verses
- Mark 2:15 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc It happened, that he was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners sat down with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many, and they followed him.
- Mark 2:16 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
- Mark 3:9 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc He spoke to his disciples that a little boat should stay near him because of the crowd, so that they wouldn't press on him.
- Mark 4:34 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained all things.
- Mark 6:41 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves, and he gave to his disciples to set before them, and he divided the two fish among them all.
- Mark 8:6 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground, and he took the seven loaves. Having given thanks, he broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve, and they served the multitude.
- Mark 8:34 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc He called the multitude to himself with his disciples, and said to them, "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
- Mark 9:18 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
- Mark 10:23 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"
- Mark 14:32 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I pray."
- Mark 16:7 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc But go, tell his disciples and Peter, 'He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he said to you.'"
Luke 3 verses
- 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 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,
John 8 verses
- 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 6:22 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 11:7 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let's go into Judea again."
- 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 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 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 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 21:14 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.
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 9:26 μαθηταῖς μαθητής n dat pl masc n nom sg masc When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
- Acts 14:28 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc They stayed there with the disciples for a long time.
- Acts 18:27 μαθηταῖς n dat pl masc When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
- Acts 21:16 μαθητῶν μαθητῇ n gen pl masc n dat sg masc Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
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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