Matthias

From Latin Matthias, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ‎ (mattiṯyā́hū).

• IPA^(key): /məˈθaɪəs/

Matthias

1. The Apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot. (biblical character)
2. A male given name, derived from the same source as Matthew.

In several European languages, the equivalents of Matthias rather than Matthew are preferred as given names.

• 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:

  And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles. (Acts 1:26)

Matthias

1. (biblical) Matthias.
2. A male given name.

• Mads
• Mathias
• Matthæus

• IPA^(key): /ma.tjas/

Matthias

1. (biblical) Matthias.
2. A male given name. Variant spelling: Mathias

From Latin Matthias, from Ancient Greek Ματθίας (Matthías)

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Matthias

1. (biblical) Matthias.
   • 1678, Der christliche Ulysses, oder weit-versuchte Cavallier, Nürnberg, p. 281:

     Es begreiffet auch in sich den Ort, da nach der Himmelfahrt deß HERRN die Apostel, den Apostel Matthiam, an die Stell deß Verrähters Judæ, durch Loos, beruffen hatten.

2. A male given name. Variant spelling: Mathias.

From the Ancient Greek Ματθίας (Matthías), Μαθθίας (Maththías), contracted from Ματταθίας (Mattathías), from the Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ‎ (Matityáhu, literally “gift of God”). Compare Matthaeus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmat.tʰi.aːs/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmat.ti.as/

Matthiās m sg (genitive Matthiae); first declension

1. Saint Matthias (the Apostle chosen to replace Judas Iscariot after the latter’s Betrayal of Christ and subsequent suicide)
   • AD 2nd century, Acta Andreae et Matthiae apud Anthropophagos [The Acts of Andrew and Matthias among the Anthropophagi]

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Matthias m

1. A male given name, a spelling variant of Matias