Λευί and 
Λευίς (
T Tr (yet see below) 
WH Λευεις (but Lachmann 
Λευίς; see 
εἰ, 
ἰ)), genitive 
Λευί (
T Tr WH Λευει), accusative 
Λευίν (
T WH Λεύειν, so 
Tr except in 
Mark 2:14) (
Buttmann, 21 (19); 
Winer's Grammar, § 10, 1), 
ὁ (Hebrew 
לֵוִי a joining, from 
לָוָה, cf. 
Genesis 29:34), 
Levi; 
1. the third son of the patriarch Jacob by his wife Leah, the founder of the tribe of Israelites which bears his name: 
Hebrews 7:5, 
9; (
Revelation 7:7). 
2. the son of Melchi, one of Christ's ancestors: 
Luke 3:24. 
3. the son of Simeon, also an ancestor of Christ: 
Luke 3:29. 
4. the son of Alphaeus, a collector of customs ((
A. V. publican)): 
Mark 2:14 (here 
WH (rejected) marginal reading 
Ἰάκωβον (see their note at the passage, cf. Weiss in Meyer on 
Matthew 7te Aufl., p. 2)); 
Luke 5:27, 
29; according to common opinion he is the same as 
Matthew the apostle (
Matthew 9:9); but cf. Grimm in the Theol. Studien und Kritiken for 1870. p. 727ff; (their identity is denied also by Nicholson on 
Matthew 9:9; yet see Patritius, De Evangeliis, 1., the passage cited i. quaest. 1; Venables in Alex.'s Kitto, under the word Matthew; Meyer, Commentary on Matthew, Introductory § 1). 
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