Alphaeus = "changing"

1. The father of Levi the publican (Mk 2:14)

2. The father of James the less, so called, one of the apostles

Bartholomew = "son of Tolmai"

1. one of the twelve apostles of Christ

to put a name upon, to surname

1. to permit one's self to be surnamed

to be named after someone

to call something to one

1. to cry out upon or against one

2. to charge something to one as a crime or reproach

3. to summon one on any charge, prosecute one for a crime

4. to blame one for, accuse one of

to invoke

1. to call upon for one's self, in one's behalf

   1. any one as a helper

   2. as my witness

   3. as my judge

   4. to appeal unto

to call upon by pronouncing the name of Jehovah

1. an expression finding its explanation in the fact that prayers addressed to God ordinarily began with an invocation of the divine name

Thaddaeus = "large hearted, courageous"

1. one of the twelve apostles. From a comparison with the catalogue of apostles in Lk 6:16, and Acts 1:13, is seems that Judas, Lebbaeus and Thaddaeus were the same person, and the writer of the book of Jude.

Thomas = "a twin"

1. one of the apostles

James = "supplanter"

1. son of Zebedee, an apostle and brother of the apostle John, commonly called James the greater or elder, slain by Herod, Acts 12

2. an apostle, son of Alphaeus, called the less

3. James the half-brother of Christ

4. an unknown James, father of the apostle Judas (?)

and, also, even, indeed, but

Lebbaeus = "a man of heart"

1. one name of Jude, who was one of the twelve apostles

Matthew = "gift of Jehovah"

1. son of Alphaeus, one of the 12 disciples

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

a renter or farmer of taxes

1. among the Romans, usually a man of equestrian rank

a tax gatherer, collector of taxes or tolls, one employed by a publican or farmer general in the collection of taxes. The tax collectors were as a class, detested not only by the Jews, but by other nations also, both on account of their employment and of the harshness, greed, and deception, with which they did their job.

Philip = "lover of horses"

1. an apostle of Christ

2. an evangelist and one of the seven deacons of the Jerusalem church

3. tetrarch of Trachonitis, was brother to Herod Antipas, by the father's, but not by the mother's side. Philip was born of Cleopatra, of Jerusalem, and Herod of Malthace, a Samaritan: he died in the twentieth year of Tiberias, five years after his mention in Lk. 3:1. He built Caesarea Philippi. His step brother Herod Antipas, married his wife unlawfully. (Gill)

4. see 2542, Caesarea Philippi