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The Lexham Theological Wordbook takes a new approach to explaining important concepts and categories used in the biblical languages. Unlike most lexicons that organize by lemmas, this wordbook groups entries according to meaning, broadly construed by semantic domain, with the related lemmas from Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek placed together. Each article explains a concept and defines the words and...

the concept of discipleship frequently involves being disciples of a particular person. The term for disciple is μαθητής (mathētēs), which describes someone who is devoted to a particular teacher. Although we see disciples of John the Baptist and the Pharisees, NT is clearly more focused on describing the disciples of Jesus, who give up everything to follow him and devote themselves to his teachings (Luke 6:40). In addition, Jesus also uses the term μαθητεύω (mathēteuō, “to make a disciple”) in his