Strong's Greek · G3547

νομοδιδάσκαλος

nomodidáskalos

doctor (teacher) of the law

Definition

an expounder of the (Jewish) law, i.e. a Rabbi

Derivation

from G3551 (νόμος) and G1320 (διδάσκαλος);

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Luke 5:17

One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

1 Timothy 1:7

They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or that which they so confidently assert.

Acts 5:34

But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law who was honored by all the people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered that the men be put outside for a short time.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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