Definition

a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))

Etymology

from G3816 (παῖς) and a reduplicated form of G71 (ἄγω);

Where the KJV renders it

• instructor
• schoolmaster

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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