Bartholomew

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Βαρθολομαῖος, from Aramaic בר and תלמי.

Proper noun

Bartholomew

1. (biblical) An Apostle, identified with Nathanael.
2. A male given name of biblical origin.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)^[1]: Matthew 10: 2 - 4:

  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; Philip, and Bartholomew ; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, whose surname was Thaddaeus; Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Related terms

• Bart
• Bartlett
• Batt

Translations

the Apostle

Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܒܪ‌ܬܘܠܡܝ (bartulmay) Armenian: Բարդուղիմեոս (Barduġimeos) Danish: Bartholomæus (da) Finnish: Bartolomeus (fi) French: Barthélemy (fr) German: Bartholomäus (de)(Catholic), Bartolomäus (de) (Protestant) Irish: Párthalón (ga), Párthalán (ga), Beartlaidh (ga) Italian: Bartolomeo (it)

Maltese: Bartolomew (mt) Norwegian: Bartolomeus (no) Russian: Варфоломей (ru) (varfolom'éj) m. Scottish Gaelic: Párthláin (gd) Spanish: Bartolomé (es) Swedish: Bartolomaios (sv), ( older ) Bartolomeus (sv)

male given name

Armenian: Բարդուղիմեոս (Barduġimeos) Basque: Bartolome Bulgarian: Вартоломей Catalan: Bartolomeu Croatian: Bartolomej Czech: Bartoloměj (cs) m. Dutch: Bartolomeüs Esperanto: Bartolomeo (eo) Finnish: Pertti (fi), Perttu (fi) French: Barthélemy (fr) Galician: Bartolomeu German: Bartholomäus (de) Greek: Βαρθολομαίος (el) Hungarian: Bertalan (hu)

Italian: Bartolomeo (it) Latin: Bartholomaeus Lithuanian: Baltramiejus Low Saxon: Mews, Mewes Maltese: Bertu (mt) Polish: Bartłomiej (pl) Portuguese: Bartolomeu Romanian: Bartolomeu Russian: Варфоломей (ru) (varfolom'éj) m. ('Russian'), Бартоломью (ru) (Bartólom'ju) m. Serbian: Вартоломеј Slovak: Bartolomej Spanish: Bartolomé (es) Swedish: Bartolomeus Ukrainian: Варфоломій