Word

Ζεβεδαῖος

Zebedaîos · G2199 · Greek · 12 occurrences

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Person

Zebedeefirst named in Matthew 4:2111 verses

Meanings

Zebedee

The father of the apostles James and John

Examples
Matthew 4:21 Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets; and He called them.
Matthew 10:2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew; and James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Matthew 20:20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to Jesus with her sons, bowing down and making a request of Him.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 2 groups

ἸάκωβοςJames 4
πατήρfather 2

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὁμοῦtogether 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μετάwith, after 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 2 groups

ὁthe (definite article) 5
υἱόςson 5

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Zebedee93.137: In Matthew 4:21, it is written that Jesus saw “James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets,” naming this father of the apostles James and John.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Ζεβεδαίου, ὁ, Zebedee (זַבְדַי for זַבְדִּי (i. e. my gift), a form of the proper name…

Ζεβεδαίου, ὁ, Zebedee (זַבְדַי for זַבְדִּי (i. e. my gift), a form of the proper name which occurs a few times in the O. T., as 1 Chr 27:27 (the Sept. Ζαβδι), munificent (others for זְבַדְיָה gift of Jehovah); from זָבַד to give), a Jew, by occupation a fisherman, husband of Salome, father of the apostles James and John: Mt 4:21; Mt 10:2 (3); Mt 20:20; Mt 26:37; ; Mk 1:19; Mk 3:17; Mk 10:35; Lk 5:10; Jn 21:2.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Persons12 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0