Greek noun (masculine) · G3807
παιδαγωγός
paidagogospahee-dag-o-gos'
guardian
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: paidagōgós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3807is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3807
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
The King James renders it: instructor, schoolmaster.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
paidagogos is rendered "guardian". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Galatians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 4:15Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
1 Corinthians 4:15παιδαγωγοὺς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Galatians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a trainer1
- guardians1
- trainer1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- παιδαγωγόν1
- παιδαγωγὸς1
- παιδαγωγοὺς1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
1 Corinthians
one use
Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel.
- παιδαγωγοὺςpaidagogousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: guardians
Galatians
two uses
So the law became our guardian to lead us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- παιδαγωγὸςpaidagogosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: trainer
Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
- παιδαγωγόνpaidagogonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a trainer
Where it leads
On this page
Studies1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.