Topic
Tutor
7 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Galatians 4:2ISBE · Nave General scriptures concerning
But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
- 2 Kings 10:1Nave General scriptures concerning
And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying,
- Acts 22:3Nave General scriptures concerning
I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
- 1 Corinthians 4:15ISBE
For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
- Galatians 3:24ISBE
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
- Galatians 3:25ISBE
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
- Galatians 4:1Nave General scriptures concerning
Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
tu'-ter: In modern English an "instructor," more particularly a private instructor, but the word properly means a "guardian." Hence its use in Ga 4:2 the King James Version for epitropos, here "guardian" (so the Revised Version (British and American)), and 1Co 4:15; Ga 3:24,25 the Revised Version (British and American) for paidagogos.
See SCHOOLMASTER.
In the topical indexes
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.