Galatians 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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Schoolmaster
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Galatians 3:25
But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
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παιδαγωγός
paidagōgós · pahee-dag-o-gos'
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a boy-leader, i.e. a servant whose office it was to take the children to school; (by implication, (figuratively) a tutor ("pædagogue"))
Strong's KJV usage: :-- instructor, schoolmaster.
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
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schoolmaster
SCHOOL'MASTER, noun [See Master].
1. The man who presides over and teaches a school; a teacher, instructor or preceptor of a school. [Applied now only or chiefly to the teachers of primary school.]
Adrian VI. was sometimes schoolmaster to Charles V.
2. He or that which disciplines, instructs and leads.
The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ. Galatians 3:24.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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