Original Word: καθηγητής, ου, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: kathégétés
Phonetic Spelling: (kath-ayg-ay-tace')
Short Definition: a leader, teacher, guide
Definition: a leader, teacher, guide, master.

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.]

STRONGS NT 2519: καθηγητής

καθηγητής, 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.))

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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