noun · masculine
maththios
Strong’sG3159
Matthias
stem maththi-2 times in the New Testament1 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.
Μαθθίας (Rec. Ματθ-, v.s. Μαθθαῖος), -α, ὁ (Heb. מַתִּיָה),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3159 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmat-thee'-as
Matthias (i.e. Mattithjah), an Israelite
Fromapparently a shortened form of G3161;
King JamesMatthias.
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
Matthias:
(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 | maththios | maththiois |
| object accusative | maththion2×Μαθθίαν | maththioin |
| direct address vocative | maththior | maththioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | maththiou | maththioiu |
| to, for dative | maththio | maththioi |
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
maththio 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
maththion“Matthias”objectaccusative singular2×
Acts 1:23… kalorōnton Barsabbon, hos epikalita Ioustos, kai Maththion.… Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.
Acts 1:26… autoi, kai piptata tos klēros epi Maththion, kai sunkatapsēfizita meta toiu hendeka apostoloiu.… lots, and the lot fell to Matthias. So he was added to the …