HELP...the three wise men?

Question

does anyone know the names of the three wise men? Help me for religion class!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!! (real answers only please)

Answer 1

Its a trick question - there were not three wise men. Read Matthew 2:1-5

Answer 2

Balthazar, Melchior, and...

...can't think of the other one, have to look it up...

...CASPAR (can never remember that one)

BTW, there are several different sets of names for the Magi - it seems that each Christian tradition has its own traditional names for the Wise Men, none of which come from the Bible, since they are unnamed in the Nativity Story - and consequently, we don't really know for sure what their names were...

...provided that they actually existed at all.

Answer 3

Balthasar of Saba, Melchior of Persian and Caspar of Tarsus

Answer 4

I have never read their names in the biblical accounts. Nor have I ever been able to find them in my Bible concordance nor dictionary. But there are people who swear that had names that were known to us. But just because there were 3 gifts doesn't even mean there were only 3 wise men. That is just an assumption on our part.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Balthazar Caspar & Melchior

Answer 7

Names
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.[4] 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[5][6].

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. One 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 declared independence from the Arsacids to become the first Indo-Parthian king and 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 in southern part of Iran, 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. 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 8

Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar

Answer 9

Dear, the Bible doesn't name the wise men or even say that there were three of them. But, if you mean the traditional names that are usually used in songs, poems, etc. it's Balthasar, Gaspar, and Melchior. I don't know who made those up, but they stuck.

Answer 10

Melchior, Gaspar, Balthazar.