Bible Names

Zelotes: meaning of the name

Zelotes means “zealous.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Zelotes in Hebrew and Greek

Ζηλωτής G2208

Zēlōtḗs — a Zealot, i.e. (specially) partisan for Jewish political independence

the same as G2207 (ζηλωτής);

Zelotes in Scripture

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

  • Luke 6:15

    Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes,

  • Acts 1:13

    And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.