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Ἀλφαῖος

Alphaîos · G256 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Alphaeus

    The father of Ἰάκωβος

    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;

  2. Alphaeus

    The father of Λευί

    Examples

    Mark 2:14 As He passed by, He saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting in the tax office, and He said to him, “Follow Me!” And he got up and followed Him.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

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 2 entries
Alphaeus93.19a
In Matthew 10:3, among the twelve apostles is listed “James the son of Alphaeus (Alphaíou),” naming the father of the apostle James the Less, also named in Mark 3:18, Luke 6:15, and Acts 1:13.
Alphaeus93.19b
In Mark 2:14, Jesus calls “Levi the son of Alphaeus (Alphaíou) sitting in the tax office,” naming a different man called Alphaeus, the father of Levi (Matthew), distinct from the father of James.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (WH Ἁλφ., see their Introductory § 408),, ὁ (חַלְפַּי cf. חַגַּי Ἀγγαῖος, Hag 1:1),…
(WH Ἁλφ., see their Introductory § 408),, ὁ (חַלְפַּי cf. חַגַּי Ἀγγαῖος, Hag 1:1), Alphoeus or Alpheus;
1. the father of Levi the publican: Mk 2:14, see Λευί, 4.
2. the father of James the less, so called, one of the twelve apostles: Mt 10:3; Mk 3:18; Lk 6:15; Acts 1:13. He seems to be the same person who in Jn 19:25 (cf. Mt 27:56; Mk 15:40) is called Κλωπᾶς after a different pronunciation of the Hebrew חלפי accusative to which cheth (ח) was changed into kappa κ', as פֶּסַח φασεκ, 2 Chr 30:1. Cf. Ἰάκωβος, 2; (B. D. American edition under the word ; also Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, pp. 256, 267 (American edition, pp. 92, 103); Wetzel in Studien und Kritiken for 1883, 10. 620f).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons5 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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