noun · masculine
kathēgētos
Strong’sG2519
a leader, teacher, guide
stem kathēgēt-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 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.
* καθηγητής, -οῦ, ὁ
(< καθηγέομαι, to go before, guide),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2519 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
guide, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 teacher, professor, NT+1st c.BC+, etc.:— also καθηγ-ητήρ, ῆρος, ὁ, Refs 4th c.AD+, Doric dialect καθᾱγ-, κελεύθου Refs:—feminine καθηγ-ήτειρα Refs 3rd c.BC+
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kathēgētos1×καθηγητὴς | kathēgētois1×καθηγηταί |
| object accusative | kathēgēton | kathēgētoin |
| direct address vocative | kathēgētor | kathēgētoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kathēgētou | kathēgētoiu |
| to, for dative | kathēgēto | kathēgētoi |
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
kathēgēto 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
kathēgētos“teacher”subjectnominative singular1×
Matthew 23:10“teacher”mēde kaliveia kathēgētois, hoti kathēgētos vu atō henos tos christos;Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.
kathēgētois“instructors”subjectnominative plural1×
Matthew 23:10mēde kaliveia kathēgētois, hoti kathēgētos vu atō henos tos …Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the …