Lexical Summary Boanerges: Boanerges, an epithet applied to the two sons of Zebedee Original Word: ΒοανεργέςTransliteration: Boanerges Phonetic Spelling: (bo-an-erg-es') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: Boanerges, an epithet applied to the two sons of Zebedee Meaning: Boanerges -- an epithet applied to the two sons of Zebedee Strong's Concordance Boanerges. Of Chaldee origin (ben and rgaz); sons of commotion; Boanerges, an epithet of two of the apostles -- Boanerges. see HEBREW ben see HEBREW rgaz Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 993: ΒοανεργέςΒοανεργές ((R G, so Suidas (ed. Gaisf. 751 a.); but) L T Tr WH Βοανηργές), Boanerges, Hebrew רֶגֶשׁ בֲּנֵי i. e. sons of thunder (as Mark himself explains it) (the name given by our Lord to James and John the sons of Zebedee): Mark 3:17; בְּ pronounced Boa as Noabhyim for Nebhyim; see Lightfoot Horae Hebrew at the passage; רֶגֶשׁ, in Psalm 55:15 a tumultuous crowd, seems in Syriac to have signified thunder; so that the name Βοανηργές seems to denote fiery and destructive zeal that may be likened to a thunderstorm, and to make reference to the occurrence narrated in Luke 9:54. (Cf. Dr. James Morison's Commentary on Mark, the passage cited; Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram., p. 9.) |
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