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Matthaios <a href="../greek/3157.htm" title="3157">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">Matthaios: Matthew</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">Ματθαῖος</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Masculine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>Matthaios<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>mat-thah'-yos<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(mat-thah'-yos)<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Matthew<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>Matthew.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from the Hebrew name מַתִּתְיָהוּ (Mattithyahu), meaning "gift of Yahweh."<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span> - <b>H4993 (מַתִּתְיָהוּ, Mattithyahu):</b> Meaning "gift of Yahweh."<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The name "Matthew" is used in the New Testament to refer to one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. He is traditionally identified as the author of the Gospel of Matthew. The name signifies a person who is a gift from God, reflecting the Hebrew origin of the name.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>Matthew, also known as Levi, was a tax collector before being called by Jesus to be one of His disciples. Tax collectors were often despised by the Jewish people for their association with the Roman authorities and perceived corruption. Matthew's calling and subsequent transformation highlight the inclusive nature of Jesus' ministry and the power of redemption. As an apostle, Matthew played a crucial role in the early Christian church, and his Gospel is one of the four canonical accounts of the life and teachings of Jesus.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>variant reading for <a href="/greek/3102b.htm">Maththaios</a>, q.v.<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 3156: Μαθθαῖος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">Μαθθαῖος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">Μαθθάν</span>, see <span class="greek2"><span class="lexref">Ματθαῖος</span></span>, <span class="greek2"><span class="lexref">Ματθάν</span></span>. <p><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 3156: Ματθαῖος</span><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">Ματθαῖος</span></span> (<span class="manuref">L</span> <span class="manuref">T</span> <span class="manuref">Tr</span> <span class="manuref">WH</span> <span class="greek2">Μαθθαῖος</span>, cf. <span class="abbreviation">Buttmann</span>, 8 (7); (<span class="manuref">WH</span>s Appendix, 159b; <span class="abbreviation">Scrivener</span>, Introduction, chapter viii. § 5, p. 562)), <span class="greek2">Ματθαιου</span> (<span class="abbreviation">Buttmann</span>, 18 (16)), <span class="greek2">ὁ</span> (commonly regarded as Hebrew <span class="hebrew">מַתִּיָה</span>, <span class="accented">gift of God,</span> from <span class="hebrew">מַתָּן</span> and <span class="hebrew">יָהּ</span>; but <span class="hebrew">מַתִּיָּה</span> is in Greek <span class="greek2">Ματθίας</span>, and the analogy of the names <span class="hebrew">חַגַּי</span> (from <span class="hebrew">חָג</span> a festival) in Greek <span class="greek2">Αγγαιος</span>, <span class="hebrew">זַכַּי</span>, <span class="greek2">Ζακχαῖος</span>, and others, as well as the Syriac form of the name before us <span class="random">yTM</span> [<BITMAP:Syriac11>] (and its form in the Talmud, viz., <span class="hebrew">מתי</span> or <span class="hebrew">מתאי</span>; Sanhedrin 43{a}; Meuschen, N. T. ex Talm. illustr., p. 8) certainly lead us to adopt the Aramaic form <span class="aramaic">מַתַּי</span>, and to derive that from the unused singular <span class="aramaic">מַת</span>, a man, plural <span class="aramaic">מְתִים</span>; hence, equivalent to manly, cf. Grimm in the Studien und Kritiken for 1870, p. 723ff), <span class="accented">Matthew,</span> at first a collector of imposts, afterward an apostle of Jesus: <a href="/interlinear/matthew/9-9.htm">Matthew 9:9</a>ff (cf. <a href="/interlinear/mark/2-14.htm">Mark 2:14</a>; <a href="/interlinear/luke/5-27.htm">Luke 5:27</a>ff; see <span class="greek2"><span class="lexref">Λευί</span></span>, 4); <a href="/interlinear/matthew/10-3.htm">Matthew 10:3</a>; <a href="/interlinear/mark/3-18.htm">Mark 3:18</a>; <a href="/interlinear/luke/6-15.htm">Luke 6:15</a>; <a href="/interlinear/acts/1-13.htm">Acts 1:13</a>. According to <span class="abbreviation">Papias</span> (in <span class="abbreviation">Eusebius</span>, <span class="abbreviation">h. e.</span> 3, 39) he wrote down <span class="greek2">Ἑβραΐδι</span> <span class="greek2">διαλέκτῳ</span> <span class="greek2">τά</span> (<span class="greek2">κυριακα</span>) <span class="greek2">λόγια</span>, i. e. <span class="accented">the sayings of our Lord</span>; this collection of discourses, perhaps already retouched by someone else and translated into Greek, the author of our first canonical Gospel combined with accounts of the acts and sufferings of Christ, and so it came to pass that this Gospel was ascribed by the church to Matthew as its author. (But this theory seems to be rendered unnecessary by the fact that <span class="greek2">λόγια</span> had already come to denote <span class="accented">sacred oracles</span> equivalent to <span class="greek2">ἱερά</span> <span class="greek2">γράμματα</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Josephus</span>, <span class="abbreviation">b. j.</span> 6, 5, 4, or <span class="greek2">ἱεραι</span> <span class="greek2">γραφαί</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Clement of Rome</span>, 1 Cor. 53, 1 [ET]; see the added references under the word <span class="greek2">λόγιον</span>. Cf. Fisher, Supernat. Origin of Christianity, pp. 160-167; and references in Schaff, Hist. of the Christ. Church, i., 622f; Bleek, Einl. ins N. T. (edited by Mangold), p. 115f.)<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>Matthew. <p>A shorter form of <a href="/greek/3164.htm">machomai</a>; Matthaeus (i.e. Matthitjah), an Israelite and a Christian -- Matthew. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/3164.htm">machomai</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>Μαθθαιον Μαθθαῖον Μαθθαιος Μαθθαῖος Maththaion Maththaîon Maththaios Maththaîos<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/matthew/9-9.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 9:9</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular">N-AMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/9.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">τὸ τελώνιον <b>Μαθθαῖον</b> λεγόμενον καὶ</span><br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/9.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> a man, named <span class="itali">Matthew,</span> sitting at<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/9-9.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> the tax booth <span class="itali">Matthew</span> called and<p><b><a href="/text/matthew/10-3.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 10:3</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/10.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">Θωμᾶς καὶ <b>Μαθθαῖος</b> ὁ τελώνης</span><br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/10.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> and <span class="itali">Matthew</span> the publican;<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/10-3.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> Thomas and <span class="itali">Matthew</span> the tax collector<p><b><a href="/text/mark/3-18.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 3:18</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular">N-AMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/3.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">Βαρθολομαῖον καὶ <b>Μαθθαῖον</b> καὶ Θωμᾶν</span><br><a href="/kjvs/mark/3.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> Bartholomew, and <span class="itali">Matthew,</span> and Thomas,<br><a href="/interlinear/mark/3-18.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> Bartholomew and <span class="itali">Matthew</span> and Thomas<p><b><a href="/text/luke/6-15.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 6:15</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular">N-AMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/6.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ <b>Μαθθαῖον</b> καὶ Θωμᾶν</span><br><a href="/kjvs/luke/6.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> <span class="itali">Matthew</span> and Thomas,<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/6-15.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> and <span class="itali">Matthew</span> and Thomas<p><b><a href="/text/acts/1-13.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Acts 1:13</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular">N-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/acts/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">Βαρθολομαῖος καὶ <b>Μαθθαῖος</b> Ἰάκωβος Ἁλφαίου</span><br><a href="/kjvs/acts/1.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> and <span class="itali">Matthew,</span> James<br><a href="/interlinear/acts/1-13.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> Bartholomew and <span class="itali">Matthew</span> James [son] of Alphaeus<p><b><a href="/greek/3156.htm">Strong's Greek 3156</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_3156.htm">5 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/maththaion_3156.htm">Μαθθαῖον — 3 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/maththaios_3156.htm">Μαθθαῖος — 2 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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