Ζεβεδαῖος G2199
Zebedee (proper noun, father of James and John)
Senses
1. Zebedee (proper noun, father of James and John) — Proper noun referring to Zebedaios (Zebedee), the father of the apostles James and John, a Galilean fisherman. Both sense clusters refer to the same individual — the split was merely due to different transliteration patterns and syntactic contexts (genitive 'of Zebedee' vs. standalone name). Multilingual evidence: Spanish 'de–Zebedaîos/Zebedaîos/Zebedaíou' (all forms of the same name), Hindi 'ज़बदी/जब्दी/जबदी' (Zabdī, variant transliterations), Arabic 'زَبَدِي/زَبَدَى' (Zabadī/Zabadā), Korean '세베대–의/세베대의–아들' (Sebedae, with possessive markers), Swahili 'wa–Zebedaiós/Zebedaîos/Zebedaíos' (of Zebedaios). All 12 occurrences reference the same historical person without any semantic variation. 12×
AR["زَبَدى","زَبَدي","زَبَدَى","زَبَدِي"]·ben["সিবদিয়","সিবদিয়ের","সিবদিয়ের,","সিবদিয়ের;","সিবদীয়ের","সেবেদীয়ের","সেবেদীয়ের,"]·DE["Zebedaeus","Zebedäus"]·EN["Zebedaios","of-Zebedaios"]·FR["Zébédée"]·heb["זְבַדְיָה","זַבְדִּי","זַבְדַי"]·HI["और","के","जबदी","जब्दी","ज़बदी","ज़बदी-का","ज़बदी-के","ज़ेबेदैओस"]·ID["Zebedeus","Zebedeus,"]·IT["Zebedeo"]·jav["Zebedeus","Zebedeus,","Zebédeus","Zebédéus","Zebédéus,","Zébedéus.","Zébédhéus","Zébédéus","Zébédéus,"]·KO["세베다이","세베다이-의","세베대","세베대-를","세베대-의","세베대-의-아들과","세베대의-아들","제베대의"]·PT["Zebedeu","Zebedeu,","de-Zebedeu"]·RU["Зеведеев","Зеведеева","Зеведеевы","Зеведеевых","Зеведея","Зеведея,"]·ES["Zebedaíou","Zebedaîos","Zebedaîou","Zebedáiou","de-Zebedaíos","de-Zebedaîo","de-Zebedaîos","de-Zebedaîou"]·SW["Zebedaios,","Zebedaíos","Zebedaîos","Zebedaîos,","pamoja-na","wa-Zebedaiós","wa-Zebedayo","wa-Zebedáios"]·TR["Zebedi","Zebedi'nin","Zebedi'nin,","Zebedi'yi","Zebedi’nin"]·urd["زبدی","زبدی-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Ζεβεδαῖος, -ου, ὁ (Heb. זְבַדְיָה; LXX: Ζαβδειά, Est.8:8 10:20; Ζαβαδαῖας, I Est.9:35; Ζαβαδαῖος, I Est.9:21) Zebedee, father of James and John the Apostles: Mat.4:21 10:2 20:20 26:37 27:56, Mrk.1:19-20 3:17 10:35, Luk.5:10, Jhn.21:2.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)