noun · masculine
zebedaios
Strong’sG2199
Zebedee
stem zebedai-12 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
A plain-English reading of the word, with the lexicons it draws on — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones — right below it, in full.
AI Summary
Zebedee, the name of a man who was the father of the apostles James and John 1234.
Sources: 1 Abbott-Smith 2 Strong's 3 LSJ 4 Dodson. Condensed by anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 on 2026-09-23 — it may still misstate what these say; check them yourself if it matters to you.
The lexicons it was drawn from, in full:
Abbott-Smith — the 1922 lexicon entry, in full
Ζεβεδαῖος, -ου, ὁ (Heb. זְבַדְיָה; LXX: Ζαβδειά, Es 8:8 10:20; Ζαβαδαῖας, I Es 9:35; Ζαβαδαῖος, I Es 9:21),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2199 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saiddzeb-ed-ah'-yos
Zebedæus, an Israelite
Fromof Hebrew origin (compare );
King JamesZebedee.
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
Zebedee, father of James and John the Apostles:
(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 | zebedaios | zebedaiois |
| object accusative | zebedaion1×Ζεβεδαῖον | zebedaioin |
| direct address vocative | zebedaior | zebedaioir |
| of, belonging to genitive | zebedaiou11×Ζεβεδαίου | zebedaioiu |
| to, for dative | zebedaio | zebedaioi |
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
zebedaio 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.
12 occurrences, every one of them listed
zebedaion“Zebedee”objectaccusative singular1×
Mark 1:20… autoin. kai afiēkarantois ton patron autoiu Zebedaion en te ploie meta toiu misthōtoiu …… them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired …
zebedaiou“Zebedee”of, belonging togenitive singular11×
Matthew 4:21… allosoin duo adelfoin, Iakōbon ton tou Zebedaiou kai Iōannon ton adelfon autou, en …… two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were …
Matthew 4:21… adelfon autou, en te ploie meta Zebedaiou tou patrou autoiu katartizarōntoin teim diktueim …… in a boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. Jesus called them,
Matthew 10:2… tos adelfos autou, Iakōbos tos tou Zebedaiou kai Iōannos tos adelfos autou,… his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Matthew 20:20“Zebedee”… proserchata auto tas mētēras toiu huioiu Zebedaiou meta toiu huioiu autau proskunarōntas kai …Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down …
Matthew 26:37… ton Petron kai toin duo huioin Zebedaiou archeta luporō kai adēmonarō.… Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and …
Matthew 27:56“Zebedee”… mētēras kai tas mētēras toiu huioiu Zebedaiou.… Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.
Mark 1:19… probainarantos oligem horata Iakōbon ton tou Zebedaiou kai Iōannon ton adelfon autou, kai …… farther, He saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were …
Mark 3:17kai Iakōbon ton tou Zebedaiou kai Iōannon ton adelfon tou Iakōbou …James son of Zebedee and his brother John ( whom He …
Mark 10:35… auto Iakōbos kai Iōannos tois huiois Zebedaiou legarōntois auto; Didaskalor, thelanō hina hem …… James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and declared, “Teacher …
Luke 5:10… de kai Iakōbon kai Iōannon huioin Zebedaiou, hois ale koinōnois to Simōno. kai …… James and John, the sons of Zebedee. “Do not be afraid,” Jesus said …
John 21:2… Kana tau Galilaiau kai tois tou Zebedaiou kai allosois ek toiu mathētoiu autou …… Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together.