noun · masculine

paidagōgos

Greekπαιδαγωγός (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

Translated as

guardian2×guardians1×

What it means

* παιδαγωγός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< παῖς, ἄγω),

a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος, Xen., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opp. to πατήρ, I Co 4:15; fig., of the Law, π. εἰς Χριστόν, Ga 3:24, 25.†

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.

Every form

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

paidagōgstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

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

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

paidagōgos“guardian”subjectnominative singular1×

Galatians 3:24“guardian”hōste tos nomos paidagōgos nu ginatē eis Christon, hina ek pistiau dikaiineia;So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

paidagōgon“guardian”objectaccusative singular1×

Galatians 3:25“guardian”ercharatau de tau pistiau ouketi hupo paidagōgon anō.Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

paidagōgoin“guardians”objectaccusative plural1×

1 Corinthians 4:15“guardians”ean gar murioi paidagōgoin echaveiō en Christo, alla ouk polloin patēroin, en gar Christo Iēso dia teu euangelieu mis vin gennama.Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.