1. disciple, learner — A pupil, student, or committed follower of a teacher, used overwhelmingly in the NT for the followers of Jesus. With 263 total occurrences, mathētēs is the standard designation for Jesus' followers throughout the Gospels and Acts (arb talāmīḏ/tilmīḏ, deu Jünger, fra disciple, heb תַּלְמִידִים/תַּלְמִיד, hin celā/celõ, kor jejadeul/jeja, spa discípulos/discípulo). It appears in singular for individual disciples (Matt 10:24-25 a disciple is not above his teacher; John 18:15-16, 19:26-27 the beloved disciple), in genitive constructions (Matt 10:42, Luke 6:17), and in the dominant plural for the group of twelve or wider circle of followers. The term also applies to disciples of John the Baptist (Matt 9:14, 11:2) and of the Pharisees (Matt 22:16). All four auto-clusters are purely inflectional case/number variants (NMP, GMP, DMP, AMP, NMS, AMS, DMS, GMS) of one lexical sense. 263×
AR["التَّلاميذِ","التَّلَامِيذُ","التَّلَامِيذِ","تَلاميذَهُ","تَلاميذُ","تَلاميذُكَ","تَلاميذُهُ","تَلاميذِهِ","تَلَامِيذُ","تَلَامِيذُكَ","تَلَامِيذُهُ","تَلَامِيذِهِ","تِلميذَهُ"]·ben["শিষ্যদের","শিষ্যরা","শিষ্যেরা"]·DE["Jünger"]·EN["disciples"]·FR["disciple"]·heb["תַּלְמִידִים","תַּלְמִידֶיךָ","תַּלְמִידָיו"]·HI["चेले","चेलों-के","चेलों-को","चेलों-में-से","चेलों-से","चेलोन","चेलोन-कि","चेलोन-को","चेलोन-ने","शिष्य"]·ID["murid-murid"]·IT["discepolo"]·jav["murid","murid,","para-siswa","siswa"]·KO["제자들","제자들에게","제자들을","제자들이"]·PT["discípulos"]·RU["ученикам","учениками","ученики","учеников"]·ES["discípulos"]·SW["wanafunzi"]·TR["öğrenciler","öğrencilere","öğrencileri","öğrencilerin","öğrencilerinden","öğrencilerine","öğrencilerinin","öğrencileriyle","öğrencisine","öğrencisini"]·urd["شاگرد","شاگردوں","شاگردوں-نے","شاگردوں-کو","شاگردوں-کی"]
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
μᾰθητ-ής, οῦ, ὁ, learner, pupil, τῆς Ἑλλάδος Refs 5th c.BC+; of dancing, Refs 4th c.BC+: frequently in Attic dialect of the pupils of philosophers and rhetoricians, οὐ θέμις πλὴν τοῖς μ. λέγειν Refs 5th c.BC+ with genitive _of things_, τούτου τοῦ μαθήματος μ. a studentofit, Refs; μ. ἰατρικῆς a student of medicine,Refs; apprentice, Refs 2nd c.AD+