adjective
didaktikos
Strong’sG1317
able to teach, apt to teach
stem didaktik-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
διδακτικός, -ή, -όν
(= cl. διδασκαλικός)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1317 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddid-ak-tik-os'
instructive ("didactic")
Fromfrom G1318;
King Jamesapt to teach.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
apt at teaching, NT+1st c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | didaktikos | didaktikas | didaktikem | didaktikois | didaktikais | didaktikeim |
| object accusative | didaktikon2×διδακτικόν | didaktikan | didaktikoin | didaktikain | ||
| direct address vocative | didaktikor | didaktikar | didaktikoir | didaktikair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | didaktikou | didaktikau | didaktikeu | didaktikoiu | didaktikaiu | didaktikeiu |
| to, for dative | didaktiko | didaktika | didaktike | didaktikoi | didaktikai | didaktikei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
didaktik is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
didaktikon“able to teach”objectaccusative singular2×
1 Timothy 3:2… gunaikau andron, nēfalion, sōfronon, kosmion, filoxenon, didaktikon,… one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
2 Timothy 2:24… machorō, alla ēpion arō pros pantoin, didaktikon, anexikakon,… but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, and forbearing.