διδάσκοντες (didaskontes) in Colossians 3:16: Verb Present Active Participle Nominative Plural Masculine

Verb: the form names an action or state, here expressed as a participle that can describe how the main action is carried out.

Present: often views the action as in progress, customary, or presently in view. Context decides the exact force.

Active: presents the subject as doing or carrying the action.

Participle: carries a verbal idea while also functioning like an adjective or clause element. Context decides its role.

Nominative: the participle stands in the nominative and normally relates to the sentence subject or shares its role in the clause.

Plural: the form is plural here, so it grammatically points to more than one participant in the action.

Masculine: the participle is in the masculine grammatical class, which identifies its agreement pattern and does not by itself make a theological gender claim.

The participle cluster attaches to the implied addressed believers in the verse, especially the flow after the command about the word of Christ dwelling richly.

It is governed by the surrounding exhortation and functions as part of the participial description of the community's instructed life, not as a separate command by itself.

It describes the community as teaching and admonishing one another while singing, showing one coordinated way the word of Christ is lived out.

It does not change the verse into a definition of the noun or create a new subject; it does not by itself specify who alone has teaching office.

High: The participle helps show how the word of Christ dwelling richly is expressed in mutual teaching and admonishing.

Nominative plural participle in an exhortation. describes one expression of the community shaped by Christ's word. Attached to the addressed believing community in Colossians 3:16. Governed by the exhortation about the word of Christ dwelling richly. The participle works with admonishing and singing and should not be isolated as a separate office claim.

What does the community do as the word of Christ dwells richly? They teach and admonish one another as part of a word-shaped community life.

Supporting: The participle supports teaching as an activity connected to the broader exhortation rather than a detached finite command.

The participle relation should be explained from the sentence, not from the morphology label alone. Masculine plural agreement is grammatical and should not be turned into a gender or office claim.

Present means continuous: The present participle contributes to the descriptive flow, but it does not by itself prove uninterrupted action. masculine means male: Masculine plural is grammatical agreement here and should not be made into a gender claim.

The witness reads διδάσκοντες in Colossians 3:16 with the morphology label "Verb Present Active Participle Nominative Plural Masculine"; this guide is limited to that exact occurrence in the Textus Receptus witness.

The lemma is διδάσκω, meaning to teach or instruct, so the form naturally carries the sense of instruction or formation.

The participle presents teaching as one ongoing expression of the community's response to the richly indwelling word, alongside admonishing and singing.

In context, the church is pictured as actively forming one another through instruction, correction, and song rooted in Christ's word.

This fits the broader biblical pattern of teaching as a shared ministry that builds up the people of God in wisdom and truth.

For communication, the form supports an exhortation about communal formation more than a narrow lexical gloss like 'I teach' would on its own.

Do not derive more than the context allows, such as a detailed hierarchy, a limit to only formal teachers, or a claim that gender marking changes meaning.