Bible Names

Thaddeus: meaning of the name

Thaddeus means “that praises or confesses.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Thaddeus in Scripture

“Thaddeus” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 10:3

    Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;

  • Mark 3:18

    And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alpheus, and Thaddeus, and Simon the Canaanite,