mathētēs · disciple

What it means

mathētēs (μαθητής) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “disciple”.

Someone who learns from a teacher and follows him in order to live as he does.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone who learns from a teacher.
2. A follower of Jesus.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Disciple: one who learns from a teacher and follows him. Abbott-Smith defines it as “a learner”; it comes from μανθάνω, “learn”.

• Jesus' twelve disciples Matthew 10:1
• Disciples of other teachers: of John, of Moses Matthew 9:14John 9:28
• Believers in general Acts 6:1
• What being his disciple requires Luke 14:27

How we translate it

“Disciples” 235 times, “disciple” 27. This edition always writes “disciple”, with no deviations.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• disciples ×235
• disciple ×27

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×73
• Mark×46
• Luke×37
• John×78
• Acts×28

• Matthew 5:1

  Now seeing the crowds, he went up onto the mountain; and when he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

• Matthew 8:21

  Another of the disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

• Matthew 8:23

  And when he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

• Matthew 9:10

  And it happened, as he was reclining at table in the house, that look, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.

• Matthew 9:11

  And seeing this, the Pharisees were saying to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with the tax collectors and sinners?”

• Matthew 9:14

  Then the disciples of John come to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?”

• Matthew 9:19

  And Jesus got up and was following him, and so did his disciples.

• Matthew 9:37

  Then he says to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few;

• Matthew 10:1

  And calling to himself his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so as to drive them out and to heal every disease and every sickness.

• Matthew 10:24

  A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a slave above his master.

• Matthew 10:25

  It is enough for the disciple to become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they call the members of his household!

• Matthew 10:42

  And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink because he is a disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”

• Matthew 11:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, that he moved on from there to teach and proclaim in their towns.

• Matthew 11:2

  Now John, hearing in prison of the works of the Messiah, sent word through his disciples

• Matthew 12:1

  At that time Jesus went on the Sabbath through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pick heads of grain and to eat.

• Matthew 12:2

  But the Pharisees, seeing it, said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath.”

• Matthew 12:49

  And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Look, my mother and my brothers!

• Matthew 13:10

  And the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?”

• Matthew 13:36

  Then leaving the crowds, he went into the house. And his disciples came to him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field.”

• Matthew 14:12

  And his disciples came and took the corpse and buried him, and they went and reported it to Jesus.

• Matthew 14:15

  When evening came, the disciples came to him, saying, “The place is deserted, and the hour has already passed; send the crowds away, so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

• Matthew 14:19

  And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed; and breaking them, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

• Matthew 14:22

  And at once he made the disciples get into a boat and go ahead of him to the other side, until he sent the crowds away.

• Matthew 14:26

  But when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were terrified, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 15:12

  Then the disciples come up and say to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard your word?”

• Matthew 15:23

  But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came and were urging him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”

• Matthew 15:32

  And Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been staying with me three days already and they do not have anything to eat; and I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.”

• Matthew 15:33

  And the disciples say to him, “Where would we get so many loaves in a desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”

• Matthew 15:36

  he took the seven loaves and the fish, and having given thanks he broke them and was giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.

• Matthew 16:5

  And when the disciples came to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

• Matthew 16:13

  Now when Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, he was asking his disciples, saying, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”

• Matthew 16:20

  Then he ordered the disciples to tell no one that he was the Messiah.

• Matthew 16:21

  From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go away to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and high priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

• Matthew 16:24

  Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

• Matthew 17:6

  And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were very afraid.

• Matthew 17:10

  And the disciples asked him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

• Matthew 17:13

  Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Immerser.

• Matthew 17:16

  And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.”

• Matthew 17:19

  Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”

And 222 more times.