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Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
1 Strong's Number: g1941 Greek: epikaleo

Surname:

"to put a name upon" (epi, "upon," kaleo, "to call"), "to surname," is used in this sense in the Passive Voice, in some texts in Mat 10:3 (it is absent in the best); in Luk 22:3, in some texts (the best have kaleo, "to call"); Act 1:23; 4:36; 10:5, 18, 32; 11:13; 12:12, 25; in some texts, Act 15:22 (the best have kaleo).

Notes:

(1) In Mar 3:16, 17, "He surnamed" is a translation of epitithemi, "to put upon, to add to," with anoma, "a name," as the object.

(2) In Act 15:37, AV, kaleo, "to call" (RV, "called"), is rendered "whose surname was."

(3) The verb eponomazo, translated "bearest the name" in Rom 2:17, RV, finds a literal correspondence in the word "surname" (epi, "upon," == sur), and had this significance in Classical Greek.

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