Words the Bible translates as disciple
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 4 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- mathētēsμαθητήςa person attached to a particular teacher as follower and learner, whose way of life is shaped by that teacher
- limmudלִמֻּדtaught, trained: someone or something that instruction or long practice has shaped into a settled way of being.
- mathēteuōμαθητεύωto make someone a disciple of Jesus, or (in the passive) to be brought in as one.
- mathētriaμαθήτριαdisciplenot studied yet
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