Surname - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Surname

[ 1,,G1941, epikaleo ]
to put a name upon" (epi, "upon," kaleo, "to call"), "to surname," is used in this sense in the Passive Voice, in some texts in Matthew 10:3 (it is absent in the best); in Luke 22:3, in some texts (the best have kaleo, "to call"); Acts 1:23; Acts 4:36; Acts 10:5, Acts 10:18, Acts 10:32; Acts 11:13; Acts 12:12, Acts 12:25; in some texts, Acts 15:22 (the best have kaleo).

Notes:

(1) In Mark 3:16-Mark 3:17, "He surnamed" is a translation of epitithemi, "to put upon, to add to," with anoma, "a name," as the object.

(2) In Acts 15:37, AV, kaleo, "to call" (RV, "called"), is rendered "whose surname was."

(3) The verb eponomazo, translated "bearest the name" in Romans 2:17, RV, finds a literal correspondence in the word "surname" (epi, "upon," == sur), and had this significance in Classical Greek.

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