Strong's #1320: didaskalos (pronounced did-as'-kal-os)
from 1321; an instructor (genitive case or specially):--doctor, master, teacher.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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didaskalos
1) a teacher
2) in the NT one who teaches concerning the things of God, and the duties of man
1a) one who is fitted to teach, or thinks himself so
1b) the teachers of the Jewish religion
1c) of those who by their great power as teachers draw crowds around them, i.e. John the Baptist, Jesus
1d) by preeminence used of Jesus by himself, as one who showed men the way of salvation
1e) of the apostles, and of Paul
1f) of those who in the religious assemblies of the Christians, undertook the work of teaching, with the special assistance of the Holy Spirit
1g) of false teachers among Christians
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from G1321
Citing in TDNT: 2:148, 161
Usage:
This word is used 58 times:
1 Corinthians 12:28: "apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then"
1 Corinthians 12:29: "prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?"
Ephesians 4:11: "and some, pastors and teachers;"
1 Timothy 2:7: "in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith"
2 Timothy 1:11: "a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles."
2 Timothy 4:3: "lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;"
Hebrews 5:12: "time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you"
James 3:1: "be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater"
