ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΙΣ, παιδαγωγοις
PAIDAGŌGOIS, paidagōgois
Sounds Like: py-dah-go-GOYS
Translations: (to) tutors, (to) guardians, (to) instructors, (to) schoolmasters
From the root: ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a tutor or guardian, often a slave, who was responsible for supervising and escorting a child, particularly a boy, to and from school and ensuring their moral conduct. They were not primarily teachers but rather escorts and disciplinarians. In a broader sense, it can refer to someone who guides or instructs, leading a person to a particular goal or understanding. This is a compound word, formed from 'παις' (pais), meaning 'child', and 'αγωγος' (agogos), meaning 'leader' or 'guide'.
Inflection: Plural, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3807 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΙ — guardians, tutors, schoolmasters, custodians
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΝ — guardian, tutor, disciplinarian, instructor, a guardian, a tutor, a disciplinarian, an instructor
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΣ — tutor, guardian, instructor, disciplinarian, schoolmaster, a tutor, a guardian, an instructor, a disciplinarian, a schoolmaster
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΟΥΣ — tutors, guardians, escorts, instructors
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΩΝ — (of) a guardian, (of) a tutor, (of) a disciplinarian, (of) a trainer, (of) a schoolmaster
- ΠΑΙΔΑΓΩΓΩΝΤΟΝ — of tutors, of guardians, of instructors, of escorts, of trainers, training, guiding, instructing
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