Ζεβεδαῖος
Zebedee
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Genitive-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine 11 times (92%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 1 time (8%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 12 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G2199 appears — 11 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 5 verses
- Matthew 4:21 Ζεβεδαίου Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc n gen sg masc Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them.
- Matthew 10:2 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
- Matthew 20:20 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.
- Matthew 26:37 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.
- Matthew 27:56 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.
Mark 4 verses
- Mark 1:19 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc Going on a little further from there, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, who were also in the boat mending the nets.
- Mark 1:20 Ζεβεδαῖον n acc sg masc Immediately he called them, and they left their father, Zebedee, in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.
- Mark 3:17 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc James the son of Zebedee; John, the brother of James, and he surnamed them Boanerges, which means, Sons of Thunder;
- Mark 10:35 Ζεβεδαίου n gen sg masc James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."
Luke 1 verse
John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Zebedee” is the headline sense of the Greek name Ζεβεδαιος (Zebedaîos). First canonically at Matthew 4:21, it enters the text early. With 11 verses in 4 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 45% of its uses. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2199 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #904
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 904 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Gospels 11 verses · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 9%
- Johannine 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Zebedee 10×, Zebedee's 2×
- American Standard Version: Zebedee 7×, Son of zebedee 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Zebedee 10×, Zebedee’s 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Zebedee 11×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2199 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2199 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2199 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2199 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Zebedee = "my gift"
- a fisherman of Galilee, the father of the apostles James the Great and John, and the husband of Salome
Word origin
Derived from εσθησις (ésthēsis) (G2067) — garment.
Of hebrew origin (compare [ H2067 ]); Zebedaeus an Israelite : - Zebedee.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2199 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ζεβεδαίου Zebedaíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 4:21 | 11 |
| Ζεβεδαῖον Zebedaîon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Mark 1:20 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Zebedee). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
A Galilean fisherman, the husband of Salome (q.v.), and the father of James and John, two of our Lord's disciples (Matt. 4:21; 27:56; Mark 15:40). He seems to have been a man of some position in Capernaum, for he had two boats (Luke 5:4) and "hired servants" (Mark 1:20) of his own. No mention is made of him after the call of his two sons by Jesus.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(my gift) (Greek form of Zabdi) a fisherman of Galilee, the father of the apostles James the Great and John (Matthew 4:21) and the husband of Salome. (Matthew 27:56; Mark 15:40) He probably lived either at Bethsaida or in its immediate neighborhood. It has been inferred from the mention of his "hired servants," (Mark 1:20) and from the acquaintance between the apostle John and Annas the high priest, (John 18:15) that the family of Zebedee were in easy circumstances. comp. (John 19:27) although not above manual labor. (Matthew 4:21) He appears only twice in the Gospel narrative, namely, in (Matthew 4:21,22; Mark 1:19,20) where he is seen in his boat with his two sons mending their nets.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
abundant; portion
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
