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To teach

διδάσκωStrong’s G1321

didaskō

Appears in 91 verses of the New Testament

In short

Didaskō is the Greek word usually translated “teaching”, “teach” and “was teaching”. It appears in 91 verses of the New Testament.

“Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
2 Thessalonians 2:15 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “teaching”, “teach” and “was teaching”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • teaching 36
  • to teach 13
  • he was teaching 11
  • you teach 3
  • teach 3
  • was teaching 3
  • do teach 3
  • taught 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 17
  • Acts 16
  • Luke 15
  • Matthew 13
  • John 10
  • Colossians 3

17 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 91 verses, by book
Romans 2
2:2112:7
1 Corinthians 2
4:1711:14
Galatians 1
1:12
Ephesians 1
4:21
Colossians 3
1:282:73:16
2 Thessalonians 1
2:15
1 Timothy 3
2:124:116:2
2 Timothy 1
2:2
Titus 1
1:11
Hebrews 2
5:128:11
1 John 1
2:27
Revelation 2
2:142:20
Greek dictionary

διδάσκω didaskō · to teach

διδάσκω [in LXX chiefly for למד pl., also for ידע hi., ירה hi., etc. ;] to teach (i.e. instruct) a person, teach a thing; 1. trans.: with accusative of person(s), Mat.5:2, Mrk.1:22, al.; before ὅτι, Mrk.8:31; περί, 1Jn.2:27; with inf., Luk.11:1; with accusative of thing(s), Mrk.6:30 12:14; with cogn. accusative, Mat.15:9 (LXX); with dupl. accusative, Mrk.4:2, Jhn.14:26; pass., Gal.1:12, 2Th.2:15; with dative of person(s) (like Heb., cf. Job.21:23, but prob. a vernac. usage, see Swete, in l.), Rev.2:14. …

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “teach” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TEACH, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive taught. [Latin doceo; dico, dicto, and both these and the Gr. to show, may be of one family; all implying sending, passing, communicating, or rather leading, drawing.

  1. To instruct; to inform; to communicate to another the knowledge of that of which he was before ignorant.“He will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths” Isaiah 2:3“Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples” Luke 11:1
  2. To deliver any doctrine, art, principles or words for instruction.“In vain they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men” Matthew 15:9
  3. To tell; to give intelligence.
  4. To instruct, or to practice the business of an instructor; to use or follow the employment of a preceptor; as, a man teaches school for a livelihood.
All definitions and other forms of “teach”
  1. To show; to exhibit so as to impress on the mind.
  2. To accustom; to make familiar.“They have taught their tongue to speak lies” Jeremiah 9:5
  3. To inform or admonish; to give previous notice to.“For he taught his disciples, and said--” Mark 9:31
  4. To suggest to the mind.“For the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that same hour what ye ought to say” Luke 12:12
  5. To signify or give notice.“He teacheth with his fingers” Proverbs 6:13
  6. To counsel and direct. Habakkuk 2:19

TEACH, verb intransitive

To practice giving instruction; to perform the business of a preceptor.

  1. “The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire” Micah 3:11

TEACH, noun

In sugar works, the last boiler.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.