STRONGS G256:
Ἀλφαῖος [WH
Ἁλφ., see their Introductory § 408),
-αίου,
ὁ (
חַלְפַּי cf.
חַגַּי Ἀγγαῖος, Haggai 1:1),
Alphæus or
Alpheus;
1. the father of Levi the publican:
Mark 2:14, see
Λευί, 4.
2. the father of James the less, so called, one of the twelve apostles:
Matthew 10:3;
Mark 3:18;
Luke 6:15;
Acts 1:13. He seems to be the same person who in
John 19:25 (cf.
Matthew 27:56;
Mark 15:40) is called
Κλωπᾶς after a different pronunciation of the Hebrew
חלפי accusative to which
ח was changed into
κ, as
פֶּסַח φασέκ,
2 Chronicles 30:1. Cf.
Ἰάκωβος, 2; [
B. D. American edition under the word Alphæus; also Bp. Lightfoot's Commentary on Galatians, pp. 256, 267 (American edition, pp. 92, 103);
Wetzel in Studien und Kritiken for 1883, p. 620f].
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