μαθητής | Bill Mounce

Vocabulary Form

μαθητής, -οῦ, ὁ

Definition

disciple

Erasmian

Modern

Root

μαθητη

Frequency

261

3412

Cognates

Math is related to mavqhma, meaning "that which is learned."
Mathematics is from maqhmatikhv.

Mnemonics

Matthew is the disciple who wrote a gospel.

Mnemonics

제자

Notes

μαθητη is declined just like προφήτης.
A disciple is a "learner."

Biblical Concordance

John 2:12	After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and his brothers and his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc), but they stayed there only a few days.
John 2:17	His disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) remembered that it stands written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”
John 2:22	Therefore, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
John 3:22	After this Jesus and his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) went into the Judean countryside, and he was there with them for a time and was baptizing.
John 3:25	Now an argument about ritual cleansing arose between some of John’s disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc) and a certain Jew.
John 4:1	Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc) than John
John 4:2	— although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) were —
John 4:8	(For his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) had gone off to the town to buy food.)
John 4:27	Just then his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) came back. They were astonished that he was talking with a woman; however, no one said to her, “What do you want?” or to him, “Why are you talking with her?”
John 4:31	In the meantime the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) kept urging Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, take something to eat.”
John 4:33	Then the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) began to say to one another, “No one has brought him something to eat, have they?”
John 6:3	Jesus went up on the mountainside, and he sat down there with his disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc).
John 6:8	One of his disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc), Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
John 6:12	And when the people had eaten their fill, he said to his disciples (mathētais \| μαθηταῖς \| dat pl masc), “Gather up the leftover pieces, so that nothing will go to waste.”
John 6:16	Now when evening had come, his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) went down to the lake,
John 6:22	On the next day the crowd was standing on the other side of the lake. They knew that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gotten into the boat with his disciples (mathētais \| μαθηταῖς \| dat pl masc), but that the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) had left without him.
John 6:24	So when the crowd realized that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc), they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.
John 6:60	Therefore, when a number of his disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc) heard it, they said, “This teaching is difficult; who can understand it?”
John 6:61	But Jesus, aware that his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) were grumbling about it, said to them, “Does this offend you?
John 6:66	From this time, many of his disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc) turned back and no longer associated with him.
John 7:3	So his brothers said to him, “You should leave here and go to Judea so that your disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) also may observe the works you are doing.
John 8:31	Jesus therefore said to the Jews who had put their trust in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc),
John 9:2	And his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) questioned him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
John 9:27	He answered them, “I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) too, do you?”
John 9:28	Then they scoffed at him, saying, “You are a disciple (mathētēs \| μαθητής \| nom sg masc) of that man! But we are disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) of Moses!