didavskw didavskw; imperfect ejdivdaskon; future didavxw; 1 aorist ejdivdaxa; 1 aorist passive ejdidavcqhn; (DAW (cf. Vanicek, p. 327)); (from Homer down); the Septuagint for ["ydI/h, hr;/h, and especially for dM'li; to teach;1. absolutely, a. to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic discourses: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; , and often in the Gospels; . b. to be a teacher (see didavskalo", 6): . c. to discharge the office of teacher, conduct oneself as a teacher: .2. in construction; a. either in imitation of the Hebrew l] dM'li () or by an irregular use of the later Greeks (of which no well-attested example remains except one in Plutarch, Marcell. c. 12), with the dative of person: tw'/ Balavk, (according to the reading now generally accepted for the Rec.^bez^elz tovn Balavk); cf. Buttmann, 149 (130); Winer's Grammar, 223 (209), cf. 227 (213). b. according to the regular use, with the accusative of person, to teach one: used of Jesus and the apostles uttering in public what they wished their hearers to know and remember, ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; touv" $Ellhna", to act the part of a teacher among the Greeks, ; used of those who enjoin upon others to observe some ordinance, to embrace some opinion, or to obey some precept: ; ; ; with especially reference to the addition which the teacher makes to the knowledge of the one he teaches, to impart instruction, instill doctrine into one: ; ; ; ; ; ; . c. the thing taught or enjoined is indicated by a following o{ti: ; ; by a following infinitive, ; ; ; periv tivno", ; ejn Cristw'/ didacqh'nai, to be taught in the fellowship of Christ, ; followed by an accusative of the thing, to teach i. e. prescribe a thing: didaskaliva", ejntavlmata ajnqrwvpwn, precepts which are commandments of men (from ), ; (Buttmann, 148 (129)); thvn oJdovn tou' Qeou', ; ; ; tau'ta, ; a{ mhv dei', ; to explain, expound, a thing: ,; ; ajpostasivan ajpov Mwu>sevw", the necessity of forsaking Moses, <<ref:BHS/GNT_Act 21:21$$Acts