Quick Definition
a leader, teacher, guide
Strong's Definition
a guide, i.e. (figuratively) a teacher
Derivation: from a compound of G2596 (κατά) and G2233 (ἡγέομαι);
KJV Usage: master
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καθηγητής, καθηγητου, ὁ (καθηγέομαι to go before, lead);
a. properly, a guide: Numen. quoted in Ath. 7, p. 313 d. b. a master, teacher: Mat_23:8 R G, 10. (Dionysius Halicarnassus jud. de Thucydides 3, 4; several times in Plutarch (cf. Wetstein (1752) on Matthew, the passage cited.))
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καθηγητής kathēgētēs 2x
pr. a guide, leader; in NT a teacher, instructor, Mat_23:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* καθηγητής , -οῦ , ὁ
( < καθηγέομαι , to go before, guide),
1. prop ., a guide.
2. a master, teacher ( MGr . professor ): Mat_23:16 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
καθηγητήζ [page 312]
For this word, which in the NT is confined to Mat_23:10 , cf. P Giss I. 80 .11 (ii/A.D.) πέμψον τῷ καθηγητῇ τῆς θυ̣γ̣[ατρό ]ς μου , ἵνα φιλοπονήσῃ εἰς αὐτήν , send to my daughter s teacher that he may bestir himself about her, P Oxy VI. 930 .6 (ii/iii A.D.) ἐλοιπήθην ἐπιγνοῦσα παρὰ τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ καθηγητοῦ ἡμῶν , I was grieved to learn from our teacher s daughter. In the fragmentary P Tebt II. 591 (ii/iii A.D.) the editors suggest that καθηγητής may denote a priestly office. MGr καθηγητής = professor.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
καθηγητής, -οῦ, ὁ
(καθηγέομαι, to go before, guide),
__1. prop., a guide.
__2. a master, teacher (MGr. professor): Mat.23:16.†
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