What does θεοδίδακτος (theodídaktos) mean in the Bible?
θεοδίδακτος (theodídaktos): Divinely instructed people, taught directly by God rather than through human instruction alone
Greek · G2312
θεοδίδακτος
Divinely instructed
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θεοδίδακτος G2312
Pronunciation theodídaktos
What does θεοδίδακτος (theodídaktos) mean in the Bible?
θεοδίδακτος (theodídaktos): Divinely instructed people, taught directly by God rather than through human instruction alone
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G2312?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include taught by God (1).
Where does θεοδίδακτος (theodídaktos) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Thessalonians 4:9. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Thessalonians (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It taught by God 1× 1 Thessalonians 4:9
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First aligned row 1 Thessalonians 4:9
Aligned rows 1
Books represented 1
1 Thessalonians 1
Source forms
θεοδίδακτοί 1x theodidaktoi 1 Thessalonians 4:9
Parsing patterns
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural 1x 1 Thessalonians 4:9
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Divinely instructed people, taught directly by God rather than through human instruction alone
Strong's G2312
Lexical occurrences 1 verse Greek text appearances 1 time Word forms 1 form 1 reference Verse guides 0 guides
Source Gloss
divinely instructed
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 Adjective Nominative Plural Masculine
θεοδίδακτοί qeodidaktoi
taught by God
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 1 Aligned forms 1 Case pattern Nominative (1) Number pattern Plural (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Plural · Masculine 1 Thess 4:9 1×
Word Origins
θεοδίδακτος is built from these roots:
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain