The three wise men names, who were at the birth of Christ.?

Answer 1

Well this is wikipedia's answer, can't vouch for the accuracy!


In the Eastern church a variety of different names are given for the three, but in the West the names have been settled since the 8th century as Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. The names of the Magi derive from an early 6th century Greek manuscript in Alexandria, translated into the Latin Excerpta Latina Barbari. The Latin text Collectanea et Flores continues the tradition of three kings and their names and gives additional details of their clothes, coming from Syria. This text is said to be from the 8th century, of Irish origin. In the Eastern churches, Ethiopian Christianity, for instance, has Hor, Karsudan, and Basanater, while the Armenians have Kagbha, Badadakharida and Badadilma (cf. Acta Sanctorum, May, I, 1780 and Concerning The Magi And Their Names).

None of these names is obviously Persian or is generally agreed to carry any ascertainable meaning, although Caspar is also sometimes given as Gaspar, a variant of the Persian Jasper - "Master of the Treasure" - from which the name of the mineral jasper is derived. There is a claim that his real name was Rustaham-Gondofarr Suren-Pahlav of the Suren-Pahlav Clan, the ruler of the eastern-greater Iran, who ruled from 10 BC to AD 17, ruling the vast empire of the Saka at the time of the Arsacid dynasty. Another candidate for the origin of the name Caspar appears in the Acts of Thomas as Gondophares (AD 21-c.AD 47) i.e. Gudapharasa (from which 'Caspar' derives via the contrived corruption 'Gaspar'). This Gondophares was also a Suren, and declared independence from Parthia to become the first Indo-Parthian king; he is thus likely to be a descendant of the Rustaham-Gondofarr, who was allegedly visited by Thomas the Apostle. Christian legend may have chosen Gondofarr simply because he was an eastern king living in the right time period.

In contrast, the Syrian Christians name the Magi Larvandad, Gushnasaph , and Hormisdas. These names have a far greater likelihood of being originally Persian, though that does not, of course, guarantee their authenticity.

The first name Larvandad is a combination of Lar, which is a region near Tehran, and vand or vandad which is a common suffix in Middle Persian meaning "related to" or "located in". Vand is also present in the names of such Iranian locations as Damavand, Nahavand, Alvand, and such names and titles as Varjavand and Vandidad. Alternatively, it might be a combination of Larvand meaning "the region of Lar" and Dad meaning "given by". The latter suffix can also be seen in such Iranian names as "Tirdad", "Mehrdad", "Bamdad" or such previously Iranian locations as "Bagdad" ("God Given") presently called Baghdad in Iraq. Thus the name simply means "born in", or "given by", Lar.

The second name, Hormisdas, is a variation of the Persian name Hormoz which was Hormazd and Hormazda in Middle Persian. The name referred to the angel of the first day of each month whose name had been given by the supreme God (of Zoroastrianism) who, in Old Persian, was called "Ahuramazda" or "Ormazd".

The third name, Gushnasaph, was a common name used in Old and Middle Persian. In Modern Persian, it is Gushnasp or Gushtasp. The name is a combination of Gushn meaning "full of manly qualities" or "full of desire or energy" for something and Asp, Modern Persian Asb, which means horse. As all scholars of Iranian studies know, horses were of great importance for the Iranians and many Iranian names, including the presently used Lohrasp, Jamasp, Garshasp, and Gushtasp, contain the suffix. As a result, the second name might mean something like "as energetic and virile as a horse" or "full of desire for having horses". Alternatively, Gushn is also recorded to have meant "many". Thus the name might simply mean "the Owner of Many Horses".

Answer 2

I don't think that the Bible gives the names of the three Wise Men (or the number three for that matter, it didn't give specifics.) The Bible DID say that the Magi visited after the birth of Christ, when the family had moved into a small house.

However, I know that the three have since had names associated with them...usually Gaspar, Balthezar and another that I can't remember off the top of my head.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Well, there were probably more than three wise men at the birth of Christ. However, the three wise men your talking about have no statement in the bible about their names.

Answer 4

The Sheperds arrived soon after Jesus Christ's birth.

The wise men from the east (orient) arrived sometime after his birth, but before Joseph moved his family to Nazareth to avoid the decree of death for all male children under the age of two years old.

Most like to think that Jesus Christ was about 18 months old at the time of the visits from the wise men and their traveling companions.

Names of the men are not recorded, I would assume because the names were not important, but the fact that they worshipped our new born king and the gifts that they brought to him were important in significance.

Answer 5

Caspar, Melchior, and Balthasar were the three sensible adult men interior the Bible, they actually, in accordance to Catholic custom did not arrive until eventually about a year after the start of christ. The ceremonial dinner day standard as, The ceremonial dinner of the Epiphany, celebrated on the 16 of January is to commemorate the three kings. God Bless, David

Answer 6

The names of the Magi were not given in the Bible, nor the number of them. Both their names and the number three comes from tradition. All the Bible says is that Magi from the East came bearing gifts. Since three gifts are mentioned, the tradition of three Magi arose, but that's not necessarily the number. Also, they weren't at the birth of Christ, but came about two years later, when Mary, Joseph and Jesus were living in a house.

Answer 7

One tradition has it they were called Hugh, Pugh and Barney McGrew.

Another that they were Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub.

Yet other traditions combine both the above in a sort of 'Trumptonite' theory on the birth of Christ. They also claim the stable was on fire at the time - there is very little evidence for this, however.

Answer 8

The three Magi were not at the birth. They didn't arrive until a little over two years later.

Answer 9

They were not given and the bible doesn't even say there were threee wise men. according to the king james version Matthew 2:1 says, "there came wise men, from the east to jerusalem." the names are unimportant anyways.

Answer 10

The number of "wise men" is unknown, as are their names. Where did you get the idea there were three?