Word

Ἰάκωβος

Iákōbos · G2385 · Greek · 42 occurrences

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Meanings

James

One of the twelve apostles and the son of Zebedee and brother of 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 17:1 Six days later, Jesus took with Him Peter and James, and his brother John, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.
James

A brother of Jesus

Examples
Matthew 13:55 “Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is His mother not called Mary, and His brothers, James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
Mark 6:3 “Is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are His sisters not here with us?” And they took offense at Him.
Acts 12:17 But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he described to them how the Lord had led him out of the prison. And he said, “Report these things to James and the brothers.” Then he left and went to another place.
James

The son of Alphaeus and one of the twelve apostles

Examples
Matthew 10:3 Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Mark 3:18 and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;
Luke 6:15 and Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot;
James

The son of Mary and called ‘the younger’ in Mark 15:40

Examples
Matthew 27:56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
Mark 15:40 Now there were also some women watching from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.
James

The father of Judas, one of the twelve apostles

Examples
Luke 6:16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
Acts 1:13 When they had entered the city, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying, that is, Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

How it’s used In 9 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἈλφαῖοςAlphæus 2

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

μικρόςsmall, little 1

Named alongside itApposition

17 occurrences in 10 groups

ΖεβεδαῖοςZebedæus 4
ἀδελφόςbrother 3
Other words · 8 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

What it doesIt is the subject

5 occurrences in 5 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
ἐπερωτάωto ask 1
προσπορεύομαιto move toward 1
χαίρωto rejoice 1
ἀποκρίνομαιto answer 1

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 3 groups

παραλαμβάνωto take along, to receive 4
εἴδωto know 1
ἀναιρέωto kill, to execute 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

ὁράωto see 1
ἀπαγγέλλωto tell 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἀδελφόςbrother 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

μετάwith, after 2
περίconcerning, about, for 2
πρόςto, toward, with 2
ἀπόfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

10 occurrences in 4 groups

ἀδελφόςbrother 4
ἸούδαςJudas, Judah 2
μήτηρmother 2
ὁthe (definite article) 2

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 5 entries

James93.158a: In Matthew 4:21, of the fisherman it is written, “He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee,” naming him directly.
James93.158b: In Matthew 10:3, among the twelve apostles it is written, “James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus,” naming a different apostle bearing the same name.
James93.158c: In Luke 6:16, among the apostles it is written, “Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor,” naming a third man of the same name, the father of the apostle Judas.
James93.158d: In Galatians 1:19, Paul writes, “I did not see another one of the apostles except James, the Lord's brother,” naming a fourth man of the same name.
James93.158e: In James 1:1, the letter opens, “James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad,” naming the letter's own author.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Ἰακώβ Iakṓb · G2384 · Jacob, the progenitor of the Israelites · 27×ἸάκωβοςIákōbos · G2385

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Ἰακώβου, ὁ (see the preceding word (and cf. Buttmann, 6, 18 (16))), James; 1. son of…

Ἰακώβου, ὁ (see the preceding word (and cf. Buttmann, 6, 18 (16))), James;
1. son of Zebedee, an apostle, and brother of the apostle John (commonly called James the greater or elder). He was slain with the sword by the command of king Herod Agrippa I. (circa A.D. 44): Mt 4:21; Mt 10:2 (); ; Mk 1:19, Mk 1:29; Mk 3:17; Mk 5:37; Mk 9:2; Mk 10:35, Mk 10:41; Mk 13:3; Mk 14:33; Lk 5:10; Lk 6:14; Lk 8:51; Lk 9:28, Lk 9:54; Acts 1:13; Acts 12:2.
2. James (commonly called the less), an apostle, son of Alphaeus: Mt 10:3; Mk 3:18; Lk 6:15; Acts 1:13; apparently identical with Ἰάκωβος ὁ μικρός James the little (A. V. the less), the son of Mary, Mk 15:40 (Mt 27:56); , wife of Cleophas (i. e. Clopas, which see) or Alphaeus, Jn 19:25; see in Ἁλφαῖος, and in Μαρία, 3.
3. James, the brother of our Lord (see ἀδελφός, 1): Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3; Gal 1:19 (where εἰ μή is employed according to a usage illustrated under εἰ, III. 8 c. β'.); Gal 2:9, Gal 2:12; Acts 12:1?; Acts 15:13; ; 1 Cor 15:7 (?); Jas 1:1, the leader of the Jewish Christians, and by them surnamed ὁ δίκαιος the Just, the overseer (or bishop) of the church at Jerusalem down to the year 62 or 63 (or according to Hegesippus in Eusebius, h. e. 2, 23 (translated in B. D., p. 1206) down to 69, which is hardly probable (see Heinichen's note at the passage)), in which year he suffered martyrdom, Josephus, Antiquities 20, 9, 1. In opposition to the orthodox opinion (defended in B. D. under the word ), which identifies this James with James the son of Alphaeus, and understands ὁ ἀδελφός τοῦ κυρίου to mean his cousin, cf. especially Clemen in Winer's Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Theol. for 1829, p. 351ff; Blom, Diss. de τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς... τοῦ κυρίου. Lugd. 1839; Wilib. Grimm in Ersch u. Gruber's Encycl., Sect. 2, vol. 23, p. 80ff; Schaff, Das Verhältniss des Jacobus, Bruders des Herrn, zu Jacobus Alphäi. Beth 1842 (also his Church Hist. (1882) i., 272f); Hilgenfeld, Galaterbrief etc., p. 138ff; Hausrath in Sehenkel iii., p. 175ff; (Sieffert in Herzog edition 2, vi., 464ff; and references under the word ἀδελφός, 1 (especially Lightfoot)).
4. An unknown James, father of the apostle Judas (or Jude): Lk 6:16; Acts 1:13, according to the opinion of those interpreters who think that not ἀδελφόν but υἱόν must be supplied in the phrase Ιουδαν Ἰακώβου; see Ἰούδας, 8.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Persons42 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.

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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