noun · masculine
paidagōgos
Strong’sG3807
a boy's guardian or tutor
stem paidagōg-3 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books3 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.
* παιδαγωγός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< παῖς, ἄγω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3807 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpahee-dag-o-gos'
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
Fromfrom G3816 and a reduplicated form of G71;
King Jamesinstructor, schoolmaster.
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
={παιδὸς ἀγωγός}, slave who went with a boy from home to school and back again, Refs 5th c.BC+; with διδάσκαλος, Refs 5th c.BC+; of Phoenix, as the π. of Achilles, Refs 5th c.BC+; Fabius is called the π. of Hannibal, because he always followed him about, Refs 1st c.AD+ has guided us until attainment of faith in Christ, NT: generally, leader, δημοκρατίας, τυραννίδος, Refs 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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | paidagōgos1×παιδαγωγὸς | paidagōgois |
| object accusative | paidagōgon1×παιδαγωγόν | paidagōgoin1×παιδαγωγοὺς |
| direct address vocative | paidagōgor | paidagōgoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | paidagōgou | paidagōgoiu |
| to, for dative | paidagōgo | paidagōgoi |
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
paidagōgo 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
paidagōgos“guardian”subjectnominative singular1×
Galatians 3:24hōste tos nomos paidagōgos nu genatē eis Christon, hina ek …So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that …
paidagōgon“guardian”objectaccusative singular1×
Galatians 3:25ercharantau de tau pistiau ouketi hupo paidagōgon anō.… we are no longer under a guardian.
paidagōgoin“guardians”objectaccusative plural1×
1 Corinthians 4:15ean gar murioi paidagōgoin echaveiō en Christo, alla ouk polloin …Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have …