Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
Ἀλφαῖος
- Transliteration
- Alphaîos
- Language
- Greek
- Indexed occurrences
- 5
Glosses
Alpheus
Lexicon definition
Alphæus, an Israelite
SUBJECT · Complete Bible Study
Alpheus
Father of James the less, Matt. x, 3; Alpheus is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “a thousand; learned; chief.” This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- G0256
- Greek
- Ἀλφαῖος · Alphaîos
- Name meaning
- a thousand; learned; chief According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
G0256
Hebrew lexical coverage
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Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Alpheus
a thousand; learned; chief
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
ALPHEUS
father of James the less, Matt. x, 3; Luke vi, 15. Alpheus was the husband of Mary, believed to have been sister to the mother of Christ; for which reason, James is called the Lord’s brother; but the term brother is too general in its application to fix their relation, though the fact is probable. Many are of opinion that Cleopas, mentioned Luke xxiv, 18, is the same as Alpheus; Alpheus being his Greek name, and Cleopas his Hebrew, or Syriac name, according to the custom of this province, (or of the time,) where men often had two names; by one of which they were known to their friends and countrymen, by the other to the Romans or strangers. 2. ALPHEUS, father of Levi, or Matthew, whom Jesus took to be an Apostle and Evangelist, Mark ii, 14.
Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources
Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Alpheus
Meaning:
a thousand; learned; chief
Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources
Sources
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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