Lexicon kathégétés: a teacher Original Word: καθηγητής, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kathégétés Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ayg-ay-tace') Short Definition: a leader, teacher, guide Definition: a leader, teacher, guide, master. HELPS word-Studies 2519 kathēgētḗs (from 2596 /katá "down" and 2233 /hēgéomai, "to lead") – properly, a leader; someone bringing others "down the road of learning" by giving needed instruction; a master-teacher. (In Modern Greek this term refers to a "professor," Abbott-Smith.) [2519 (kathēgētḗs) is used of an educator-facilitator in Dionysius, Thucudides, Plato, Aristotle; cf. Abbott-Smith.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom kata and hégeomaiDefinitiona teacher NASB Translationleader (1), leaders (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2519: καθηγητήςκαθηγητής, καθηγητου, ὁ ( καθηγέομαι to go before, lead); a. properly, a guide: Numen. quoted in Ath. 7, p. 313 d. b. a master, teacher: Matthew 23:8 R G, 10. (Dionysius Halicarnassus jud. de Thucydides 3, 4; several times in Plutarch (cf. Wetstein (1752) on Matthew, the passage cited.))
Strong's master, teacher From a compound of kata and hegeomai; a guide, i.e. (figuratively) a teacher -- master. see GREEK kata see GREEK hegeomai |
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