G3156 Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos)

Ματθαῖος (1, Τ Tr WII Μαθθαῖος, cf. B. 8 (7); [WH. App. 159°; Scrivener, Introd. ch. viii. § 5 p. 5627), -ov [B. 18 (16)], 6, (commonly regarded as Hebr. mn gift of God, fr. ;A and; but Ai is in Greek Ματθίας, and the analogy of the names 13m (fr. 1M a festival) in Greek ’Ayyaios, 133 Ζακχαῖος, and others, as well as the δ Syriac form of the name before us w2So, [and its form in the Talmud, viz. *n7) or “NNN; Sanhedrin 43°; Meuschen, N. T. ex Talm. illustr. p. 8] certainly lead us to adopt the Aramaic form ‘73, and to derive that from the unused sing. 1, a man, plur. on; hence i. q. manly, cf. Grimm in the Stud. u. Krit. for 1870, p. 723 sqq-), Matthew, at first a collector of imposts, afterwards an apostle of Jesus: Mt. ix. 9 sqq. (cf. Mk. ii. 14; Lk. v. 27 sqq.; see Aevi,4); Mt.x.3; Mk.iii.18; Lk. vi.15; Acts i.13. Ace. to Papias (in Euseb. ἢ. 6. 3, 39) he wrote down ἑβραΐδι διαλέκτῳ τὰ (κυριακὰ) λόγια, i. 6. the sayings of our Lord; this collection of discourses, perhaps already retouched by some one 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 asits author. [But this theory seems to be rendered unnecessary by the fact that λόγια had already come to denote “sacred oracles” i. q. ἱερὰ γράμματα, Joseph. Ὁ. j. 6, 5, 4, or ἱεραὶ γραφαί, Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 53,1; see the added reff. 5. v. λόγιον. Cf. Fisher, Supernat. Origin of Christianity, pp. 160-167; and reff. in Schaff, Hist. of the Christ. Church, i. 622 sq.; Bleek, Einl. ins N. T. (ed. Mangold) p. 115 sq.]

Ματθαῖος, -άν, -ίας, v.s. Μαθθ-.

Ματθαῖος (Matthaios) — Matthew. Μαθθαῖος (Rec. Ματθ-, see WH, App., 159; Bl., § 3, 11; on the Semitic form, see Dalman, Words, 51; Gr., 142), -ου, ὁ, Matthew: Mt title., Mat.9:9 10:3, Mrk.3:18, Luk.6:15, Act.1:13 (cf. Λευεί).† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)