Apostles, Matthew and Matthias

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I am trying to figure out how the Apostles Matthew and Mattthias names are related. Are these just different Greek renderings of the same Hebrew name or…? If so then would they actually have the same name, because they probably don’t have Greek names. If they are they did have the exact same name then why would they be rendered differently in Greek? Perhaps they had different real names, that is Hebrew names. If so then are the names related? Anyway I was just wondering what people could tell me about these names and how they relate to each other.
 
matthias said:
I am trying to figure out how the Apostles Matthew and Mattthias names are related. Are these just different Greek renderings of the same Hebrew name or…? If so then would they actually have the same name, because they probably don’t have Greek names. If they are they did have the exact same name then why would they be rendered differently in Greek? Perhaps they had different real names, that is Hebrew names. If so then are the names related? Anyway I was just wondering what people could tell me about these names and how they relate to each other.
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I thought Matthew (the Evangelist and tax collector) was also called Levi. So it does sound like he had two names. I think we just render them differently so that there isn’t any confusion between the two is all - after all, they were both Apostles. Like St Jude (Thaddeus) and Judas Iscariot.
 
matthias said:
I am trying to figure out how the Apostles Matthew and Mattthias names are related. Are these just different Greek renderings of the same Hebrew name or…? If so then would they actually have the same name, because they probably don’t have Greek names. If they are they did have the exact same name then why would they be rendered differently in Greek? Perhaps they had different real names, that is Hebrew names. If so then are the names related? Anyway I was just wondering what people could tell me about these names and how they relate to each other.
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According to my Webster’s dictionary, Matthew (Greek Matthaios) and Matthias (Greek Matthias) are both contractions of the Greek Mattathias from the Hebrew Mattithyah, which means “Gift of God.”
 
Todd_Easton said:
According to my Webster’s dictionary, Matthew (Greek Matthaios) and Matthias (Greek Matthias) are both contractions of the Greek Mattathias from the Hebrew Mattithyah, which means “Gift of God.”
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Presumably they went by their Hebrew names however because they were not Greeks. If this were the case however why did the author of Acts give two names? If he were translating two identical Hebrew names into Greek wouldn’t he have chosen the same way of rendering it? Or did the Apostles go by Greek names, which sounds strange to me for Hebrews…
 
LilyM said:
I thought Matthew (the Evangelist and tax collector) was also called Levi. So it does sound like he had two names. I think we just render them differently so that there isn’t any confusion between the two is all - after all, they were both Apostles. Like St Jude (Thaddeus) and Judas Iscariot.
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I thought Levi was a tribe? As Jesus of Nazareth
 
matthias said:
Presumably they went by their Hebrew names however because they were not Greeks. If this were the case however why did the author of Acts give two names? If he were translating two identical Hebrew names into Greek wouldn’t he have chosen the same way of rendering it? Or did the Apostles go by Greek names, which sounds strange to me for Hebrews…
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Since the Greek for “gift of god” is *Theodoros *(our Theodore). It would appear that the Greek *Matthaios *(our Matthew) and *Matthias *(our Matthias) are transliterations, not translations, of the original Hebrew names of the two apostles, which were both contractions of the Hebrew Mattithyah, which means “Gift of God.”
 
Texas_Roofer said:
I thought Levi was a tribe? As Jesus of Nazareth
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Tradition (I’m not sure if it’s big “T” or little “t”) tells us that Levi, the Tax Collector, to whom Jesus invited Himself to dinner, was Matthew, the author of the Gospel.
 
Matthew and Matthias were two different apostles. Matthew (also called Levi) was one of the original 12 chosen by Our Lord. Matthias is the one chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot ( see Acts 1: 16-26).

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