G3807: παιδαγωγός
paidagōgós · “guardian”
Definition
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
KJV translates it as: instructor, schoolmaster
Word origin: from G3816 (παῖς) and a reduplicated form of G71 (ἄγω);
Extended definition
παιδαγωγός, -oῦ, ὁ
(παῖς, ἄγω),
a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος, Xen., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opposite to πατήρ, 1Co.4:15; figuratively, of the Law, π. εἰς Χριστόν, Gal.3:24-25.†
(AS)
(παῖς, ἄγω),
a guide, guardian, trainer of boys, a tutor (disting. from διδάσκαλος, Xen., Lac., 3, 1), usually a trusty slave: opposite to πατήρ, 1Co.4:15; figuratively, of the Law, π. εἰς Χριστόν, Gal.3:24-25.†
(AS)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3807 is translated
- guardians ×1
- trainer ×1
- a trainer ×1
Bible verses with G3807 (paidagōgós)
Paidagōgós appears in 3 verses.
- 1 Corinthians 4:15
For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
- Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Galatians 3:25
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.