Ματθαῖος
Matthaios
“Matthew”
Definition
Matthæus (i.e. Matthitjah), an Israelite and a Christian
a shorter form of G3164 (μάχομαι);
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Proper Noun (Masculine)
N:N-M-P
Proper Noun, Masculine
Occurrences
Ματθαῖος appears 5 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
When they arrived, they went to the upper room where they were staying: Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James.
Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow Me,” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed Him.
Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.