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μαθητής
Vocabulary form:
μαθητής
Definition:
disciple
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
261
GK:
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.
Notes:
maqhthvV is declined just like profhvthV.
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! |
| John 11:7 | Then after this he said to the disciples (mathētais | μαθηταῖς | dat pl masc), “Let us go to Judea again.” |
| John 11:8 | The disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc) said to him, “Rabbi, just recently the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?” |
| John 11:12 | The disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc) therefore said to him, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.” |
| John 11:54 | Jesus therefore no longer walked about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and he stayed there with his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc). |
| John 12:4 | But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc) (the one who would betray him) said, |
| John 12:16 | His disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc) did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that they had done these things to him. |
| John 13:5 | Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc) feet and to dry them with the towel tied around his waist. |
| John 13:22 | The disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc) began to look at one another, at a loss to know about whom he was speaking. |
| John 13:23 | One of his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc) — the one Jesus loved — was reclining at table close beside Jesus. |
| John 13:35 | By this all people will know that you are my disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc), if you have love for one another.” |
| John 15:8 | My Father is glorified in this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc). |
| John 16:17 | Some of his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc) therefore said to one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘Because I am going to the Father’?” |
| John 16:29 | His disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc) said, “Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using veiled language! |
| John 18:1 | When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples (mathētais | μαθηταῖς | dat pl masc) across the Kidron valley, where there was an olive grove, into which he entered with his disciples (mathētai | μαθηταί | nom pl masc). |
| John 18:2 | Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc). |
| John 18:15 | Simon Peter was following Jesus along with another disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc). Since that disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc) was known to the high priest, he went with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest, |
| John 18:16 | but Peter remained outside at the door. So the other disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc), the one who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in. |
| John 18:17 | The servant girl who kept watch at the door said to Peter, “You are not one of that man’s disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc), are you?” He answered, “I am not.” |
| John 18:19 | Meanwhile the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc) and about his teaching. |
| John 18:25 | Now Simon Peter was still standing and warming himself, so they said to him, “You are not one of his disciples (mathētōn | μαθητῶν | gen pl masc), are you?” Peter denied it and said, “I am not!” |
| John 19:26 | When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple (mathētēn | μαθητήν | acc sg masc) whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Woman, look, your son!” |
| John 19:27 | Then he said to his disciple (mathētē | μαθητῇ | dat sg masc), “Look, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc) took her into his own home. |
| John 19:38 | After this Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc) of Jesus (though a secret one due to his fear of the Jews) asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed the body. |
| John 20:2 | So she went running to Simon Peter and the other disciple (mathētēn | μαθητήν | acc sg masc), the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken our Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!” |
| John 20:3 | So Peter and the other disciple (mathētēs | μαθητής | nom sg masc) set out to go to the tomb. |
Mnemonics
mnemonic
Mathetes as in learning math takes discipline