disciple
part of speech
noun (a disciple, disciples)
meaning for a pupil
1) (Bible) A disciple was a follower of Jesus who learned from him; the twelve closest were also called apostles. tree →
2) A disciple is anyone who follows and learns from a teacher or leader and believes in their ideas. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the sources here, disciples are students of the Greek thinker Pythagoras and not followers of Jesus. In Isaiah, the disciples are those who learn from the prophet, to whom he gives his teaching. Interpretation: Some scholars compare the Pythagorean love of the number ten with the ten numerations of Sefer Yetzirah. Isaiah's command to seal the teaching among his disciples is read as handing God's word down to students. In the primary lessons: In Bible stories the disciples are fishermen and others who leave their work to follow Jesus: Peter, James, John, Matthew, Judas and the rest. At the Last Supper Jesus ate with his disciples. Outside religion, a famous coach or artist can have disciples who copy their ways. Phrases: the twelve disciples, a disciple of someone, call disciples.
examples
- The disciples of Pythagoras looked upon the decade as a holy number, and swore by it and by the Tetraktys which contain the number ten, (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- Burnet, Early Greek Pliitosopliy, page 99) that "all that has come down to us under the names of various disciples of Pythagoras is pure forgery, of the most worthless kind. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) tree →
- 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.' (Prophets ISA.8.16, JPS 1917) tree →
- Jesus called Peter and Andrew to be his disciples. tree →
- The disciples were afraid when the storm hit their boat. tree →
- At the Last Supper, Jesus washed his disciples' feet. tree →
- The young chef was a disciple of the great baker. tree →
- We learned the names of the twelve disciples. tree →
- A disciple listens, learns, and tries to live by the teaching. tree →
- The one who came to you before was only my disciple!” replied the old man again. tree →
note
Countable. Spelling: d-i-s-c-i-p-l-e (sc). Related: discipline (training and order) comes from the same root, "learning". "Disciple" and "apostle" overlap: apostles are disciples sent out to preach.
In the corpora
- 'Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among My disciples.'
- When the disciples sent children away, Jesus said «Let the children come to me».
- At the Last Supper Jesus washed his disciples' feet, which was a servant's job.
- Judas, one of the twelve disciples, betrayed Jesus to the authorities for thirty pieces of silver.
- Two disciples on the road to Emmaus walked with a stranger and recognised Jesus when he broke the bread.
Trees and pragmatics
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