noun · masculine
mathaios
Strong’sG3156
Matthew
stem mathai-5 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 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.
Μαθθαῖος (Rec. Ματθ-, v. WH, App., 159; Bl., § 3, 11; on the Semitic form, v. Dalman, Words, 51; Gr., 142), -ου, ὁ,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3156 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmat-thah'-yos
Matthæus (i.e. Matthitjah), an Israelite and a Christian
Froma shorter form of G3164;
King JamesMatthew.
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
Matthew: Mt title.,
(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 | mathaios2×Μαθθαῖος | mathaiois |
| object accusative | mathaion3×Μαθθαῖον | mathaioin |
| direct address vocative | mathaior | mathaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | mathaiou | mathaioiu |
| to, for dative | mathaio | mathaioi |
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
mathaio 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
mathaios“Matthew”subjectnominative singular2×
Matthew 10:3Filippos kai Bartholomaios, Thōmos kai Mathaios tos telōnos, Iakōbos tos tou Halfaiou …Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of …
Acts 1:13… Andreos, Filippos kai Thōmos, Bartholomaios kai Mathaios, Iakōbos Halfaiou kai Simōnos tos zēlōtos …… Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the …
mathaion“Matthew”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 9:9… horata anthrōpon kathorōnton epi tem telōniem, Mathaion legorōnton, kai legatō auto; Akolouthasōr mi; …… there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax booth. “Follow …
Mark 3:18… Andreon kai Filippon kai Bartholomaion kai Mathaion kai Thōmon kai Iakōbon ton tou …Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus …
Luke 6:15kai Mathaion kai Thōmon kai Iakōbon Halfaiou kai …Matthew and Thomas; James son of Alphaeus …