noun · masculine
halfaios
Strong’sG256
Alphaeus
stem halfai-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Ἀλφαῖος (WH, Ἀλ-), -ου, ὁ (Aram. חַלְפַּי)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G256 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidal-fah'-yos
Alphæus, an Israelite
Fromof Hebrew origin (compare );
King JamesAlpheus.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Alphæus.
__1. Father of Levi:
__2. Father of James:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | halfaios | halfaiois |
| object accusative | halfaion | halfaioin |
| direct address vocative | halfaior | halfaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | halfaiou5×Ἁλφαίου | halfaioiu |
| to, for dative | halfaio | halfaioi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
halfaio is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
5 occurrences, every one of them listed
halfaiou“Alphaeus”of, belonging togenitive singular5×
Matthew 10:3… Mathaios tos telōnos, Iakōbos tos tou Halfaiou kai Thaddaios,… the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;
Mark 2:14kai paragarōntos horata Levion ton tou Halfaiou kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, kai legatō …… along, He saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth. “Follow …
Mark 3:18… kai Thōmon kai Iakōbon ton tou Halfaiou kai Thaddaion kai Simōnon ton Kananaion… Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,
Luke 6:15kai Mathaion kai Thōmon kai Iakōbon Halfaiou kai Simōnon ton kalorōnton ZēlōtonMatthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus and Simon called the Zealot;
Acts 1:13… kai Thōmos, Bartholomaios kai Mathaios, Iakōbos Halfaiou kai Simōnos tos zēlōtos kai Ioudos …… Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son …