I can't imagine that in ancient israel Jesus' disciples happened to all have western sounding names...
thank you
2006-07-09 00:18:52 · 7 answers · asked by eternity 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JOHN is the Anglicized form of the Hebrew YOCHANAN meaning GOD IS GRACIOUS
MATTHEW is a variant spelling of MATTATHIAS, which is the Greek form of the Hebrew name MATITYAHU meaning GIFT OF GOD
Mark Hebrew equivalent - Mordechai
Luke Hebrew equivalents - Avner, Barak, Elior, Lior, Maor, Meir, Orli, Uri, Uriya
2006-07-09 00:29:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, you have it reversed. In the West, cultures based upon Chritian and Biblical traditions, named their children after persons from the Bible.
They had the names first.
The names Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are the English translations of the Greek names:
Matthaios - Matthew
Markos - Mark
Loukas - Luke
Iōannēs - John
Iēsous - Jesus
2006-07-09 00:29:46 · answer #2 · answered by steve 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew
Ματθαῖος
Matthaios
mat-thah'-yos
A shorter form of G3161; Matthaeus (that is, Matthitjah), an Israelite and Christian: - Matthew.
Mark
H4409
מלּוּכי מלּוּךo
mallûk malûkîy
mal-luke, mal-loo-kee'
From H4427; regnant; Malluk, the name of five Israelites: - Malluch, Melichu [from the margin].
or
G3065
Λουκᾶς
Loukas
loo-kas'
Contracted from the Latin Lucanus; Lucas, a Christian: - Lucas, Luke.
John
G2491
Ἰωάννης
Iōannēs
ee-o-an'-nace
Of Hebrew origin [H3110]; Joannes (that is, Jochanan), the name of four Israelites: - John.
I couldn't find mark.
2006-07-09 00:26:17 · answer #3 · answered by evil_kandykid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The oldest reproduction of element of the Gospel of John is going lower back to 150AD. it quite is actual really astonishing - maximum copies of historic books bypass lower back in ordinary words to copies, of copies, of copies courting to about 1000AD. truly, beforehand the discovery of the lifeless Sea Scrolls, the oldest reproduction Jewish writing (the former testomony) dated to about 1000. historic books merely did not very last, and had to be recopied each and every few hundred years. the actual undeniable actuality that maximum historic books have from a million-3 copies, and the Bible very nearly 20,000 shows what variety of a e book it changed into - and, facilitates scholars to get lower back really a lot to the originals.
2016-11-01 12:06:20 · answer #4 · answered by shea 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His original name was Levi
2006-07-09 00:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anas Abbas P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is the english translation of their names.
2006-07-09 00:22:07 · answer #6 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huey ,luey and Juey
2006-07-09 00:24:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋