Zebedee

  • [ ZEB-i-dee (English) ]
  • Biblical
From Ζεβεδαιος (Zebedaios), the Greek form of ZEBADIAH used in the New Testament, where it refers to the father of the apostles James and John.

ZEBADIAH   male   Biblical
Means "YAHWEH has bestowed" in Hebrew. This was the name of several Old Testament characters.
YAHWEH   male   Theology
A name of the Hebrew God, represented in Hebrew by the tetragrammaton ("four letters") יהוה (Yod Heh Vav Heh), which was transliterated into Roman script as Y H W H. Because it was considered blasphemous to utter the name of God, it was only written and never spoken, which resulted in the original pronunciation becoming lost. The name may have originally been derived from the old Semitic root הוה (hawah) meaning "to be" or "to become".
EQUIVALENTS
BIBLICAL GREEK: Zebedaios
BIBLICAL HEBREW: Zevadyah
BIBLICAL: Zebadiah
OTHER FORMS
THEOLOGY: Yahweh