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

Acts 9:25	but his disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) took him by night and let him down through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.
Acts 9:26	When he came to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples (mathētais \| μαθηταῖς \| dat pl masc); but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple (mathētēs \| μαθητής \| nom sg masc).
Acts 9:38	Since Lydda is near Joppa, the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc), hearing that Peter was there, sent two men to him urging him, “Do not delay in coming to us.”
Acts 11:26	and when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. For a whole year they met with the church and taught a considerable number of people. And in Antioch the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc) were first called Christians.
Acts 11:29	So each of the disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc), according to his financial ability, resolved to send relief to the brothers living in Judea,
Acts 13:52	And the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.
Acts 14:20	But when the disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc) gathered around him, he got up and went into the city; and on the following day he set off with Barnabas for Derbe.
Acts 14:22	strengthening the souls of the disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc), encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.”
Acts 14:28	And they spent no little time there with the disciples (mathētais \| μαθηταῖς \| dat pl masc).
Acts 15:10	So now why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc), which neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
Acts 16:1	Paul went also to Derbe and to Lystra; and there was a certain disciple (mathētēs \| μαθητής \| nom sg masc) there named Timothy, the son of a converted Jewish woman, whose father was a Greek.
Acts 18:23	After spending some time there, he departed and made his way from place to place through the Galatian country and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc).
Acts 18:27	And when he wanted to continue on into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples (mathētais \| μαθηταῖς \| dat pl masc) to welcome him. When he arrived there, he greatly helped those who had come to believe through grace,
Acts 19:1	And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul went through the inland regions and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc)
Acts 19:9	But when some became stubborn and refused to believe, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them, taking the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc) with him, and continued daily to discourse in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Acts 19:30	But when Paul wanted to go in among the people, the disciples (mathētai \| μαθηταί \| nom pl masc) would not let him.
Acts 20:1	After the uproar ceased, Paul sent for the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc), and after encouraging them and saying farewell, he left for Macedonia.
Acts 20:30	Even from among your own group will men arise, speaking distortions of the truth, to draw the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc) away after them.
Acts 21:4	After locating the disciples (mathētas \| μαθητάς \| acc pl masc), we stayed there seven days; and they kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.
Acts 21:16	And some of the disciples (mathētōn \| μαθητῶν \| gen pl masc) from Caesarea came with us, bringing Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple (mathētē \| μαθητῇ \| dat sg masc), with whom we should lodge.