Lebbaeus. Alternate name given to Thaddaeus, one of the 12 disciples, in Matthew 10:3 (kjv only). Most versions omit the name, which comes from a textual variant followed by the kjv translators.SeeThaddaeus, The Apostle.
LEBBAEUS* Alternate name given to Thaddaeus, one of the 12 disciples, in Matthew 10:3 (kjv only). Most versions omit the name, which comes from a textual variant followed by the kjv translators. SeeThaddaeus, The Apostle.
The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated)
Lebbaeus (li-bee´uhs), the name for one of Jesus’s twelve disciples found in some nt manuscripts in place of Thaddaeus (Matt. 10:3). See alsoThaddaeus.
LEBBAEUS. The name of one of Jesus’ apostles, based on a variant reading of the Western text (D) and chosen by Textus Receptus in Mt 10:3, instead of the better attested reading Thaddaios given in the Gr. text of Nestle and Souter. Matthew, however, may have remembered the Heb. name of Thaddaeus. Mark
Lebbaeus (Gk. Lebbaɩ́os)An alternative reading for Thaddaeus in some manuscripts of Matt. 10:3. Options include “Thaddaeus,” “Lebbaeus,” “Thaddaeus who was called Lebbaeus,” and “Lebbaeus who was called Thaddaeus.” Of these only the first two are viable. The name also occurs in Mark 3:18 with much less
Lebbaeus [lĕ bēˊəs] (Gk. Lebbaíos). According to the Western text at Matt. 10:3 (so KJV, RSV mg.); Mark 3:18, another name for the apostle Thaddeus. If, as the KJV reads at Matt. 10:3, the name is a surname it could refer to his place of Origin. Some scholars derive the name from Heb.
Lebbaeus. An alternative name for *Thaddaeus, found in many MSS of Mt. 10:3 and also in a few at Mk. 3:18. In the AV and NEB it occurs only at the former place, and in the RV not at all.
LEBBE´US (le-bēʹus; “courageous”). In KJV a surname of Judas (Matt. 10:3), one of the twelve apostles. He was called also Thaddaeus, which Meyers (Com. in loco.) believes was his regular apostolic name.
Lebbaeus—courageous, a surname of Judas (Jude), one of the twelve (Matt. 10:3), called also Thaddaeus, not to be confounded with the Judas who was the brother of our Lord.
LEBBAEUS [leh BEE uhs] (man of heart) — one of the 12 apostles, also called Thaddaeus (Matt. 10:3). According to a church tradition, Lebbaeus is the same person as “Judas the son [or brother] of James” (Luke 6:16).