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.
47 distinct verses where G3101 appears in the Genitive 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 5 verses
- Matthew 8:21 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father."
- Matthew 10:42 μαθητοῦ n gen sg masc Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most assuredly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."
- Matthew 11:2 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples
- Matthew 26:18 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc He said, "Go into the city to a certain person, and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples."'"
- Matthew 26:20 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now when evening had come, he was reclining at the table with the twelve disciples.
Mark 8 verses
- Mark 3:7 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
- Mark 7:2 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.
- Mark 8:10 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Immediately he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the region of Dalmanutha.
- Mark 10:46 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
- Mark 11:1 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
- Mark 13:1 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!"
- Mark 14:13 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, "Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,
- Mark 14:14 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc and wherever he enters in, tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?"'
Luke 7 verses
- 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 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 9:40 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn't."
- 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 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 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?"'
John 18 verses
- John 1:35 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,
- 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 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 6:60 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 6:66 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
- 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 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 13:23 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table, leaning against Jesus' breast.
- 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 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 18:17 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 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 21:2 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 21:12 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.
Acts 9 verses
- Acts 6:1 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
- Acts 6:2 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, "It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
- Acts 6:7 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Acts 9:19 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc He took food and was strengthened. Saul stayed several days with the disciples who were at Damascus.
- Acts 11:29 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
- Acts 14:20 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc But as the disciples stood around him, he rose up, and entered into the city. On the next day he went out with Barnabas to Derbe.
- Acts 14:22 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
- Acts 15:10 μαθητῶν n gen pl masc Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- 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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