Ματθίας

• Μαθθίας (Maththías)

Shortened form of Ματταθίας (Mattathías), from Biblical Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū).

Ματθίας • (Matthías) m (genitive Ματθίου); first declension

1. (biblical, Christianity) a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Matthias

• New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 1:23–26:

  καὶ ἔστησαν δύο, Ἰωσὴφ τὸν καλούμενον Βαρσαβᾶν, ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Ἰοῦστος, καὶ Ματθίαν. […] καὶ ἔδωκαν κλήρους αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔπεσεν ὁ κλῆρος ἐπὶ Ματθίαν, καὶ συγκατεψηφίσθη μετὰ τῶν ἕνδεκα ἀποστόλων.

  kaì éstēsan dúo, Iōsḕph tòn kaloúmenon Barsabân, hòs epeklḗthē Ioûstos, kaì Matthían. […] kaì édōkan klḗrous autôn, kaì épesen ho klêros epì Matthían, kaì sunkatepsēphísthē metà tôn héndeka apostólōn.

  • Translation by KJV

    And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias. […] And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

• Latin: Matthiās (see there for further descendants)

• G3159 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900), “Ματθίας”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 736