Zebedee: meaning of the name

Zebedee in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Zebedee in the Bible

• Zebedee

  11 verses · first mentioned in Matthew 4:21

Zebedee in Scripture

“Zebedee” appears in 11 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Matthew 4:21

  And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

• Matthew 10:2

  Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

• Matthew 20:20

  Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

• Matthew 26:37

  And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

• Matthew 27:56

  Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

• Mark 1:19

  And when he had gone a little further thence, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets.

• Mark 1:20

  And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

• Mark 3:17

  And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: