Θωμᾶς

See also: Θωμάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic תאומא (“Thomas”), from תאמא m (“twin”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tʰɔː.mâːs/ → /θoˈmas/ → /θoˈmas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tʰɔː.mâːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /tʰoˈmas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /θoˈmas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /θoˈmas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /θoˈmas/

Proper noun

Θωμᾶς • (Thōmâs) m (genitive Θωμᾶ); first declension

1. Thomas
   • 65 CE – 70 CE, The Gospel of Mark 3:18
   • 80 CE – 90 CE, The Gospel of Luke 6:15
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, Acts of the Apostles 1:13
   • 90 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 11:16
   • 70 CE – 90 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 10:3

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Θωμᾶς; τοῦ Θωμᾶ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Θωμᾶς ho Thōmâs
Genitive	τοῦ Θωμᾶ toû Thōmâ
Dative	τῷ Θωμᾷ tōî Thōmāî
Accusative	τὸν Θωμᾶν tòn Thōmân
Vocative	Θωμᾶ Thōmâ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: Θωμάς (Thomás)
• → Old Church Slavonic: Ѳѡма (Θoma)
  • → Belarusian: Фама́ (Famá)
  • → Bulgarian: Тома (Toma)
  • → Macedonian: Тома (Toma)
  • → Russian: Фома (Foma)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: Тома
    • Latin script: Toma
  • → Ukrainian: Хома (Xoma), Фома (Foma), Тома (Toma)
• → Georgian: თომა (toma)
• → Gothic: 𐌸𐍉𐌼𐌰𐍃 (þōmas)
• → Latin: Thomas (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Armenian: Թովմաս (Tʻovmas), Թումաս (Tʻumas), Թոմաս (Tʻomas), Թովմայ (Tʻovmay), Թովմա (Tʻovma), Թոմայ (Tʻomay)
• → Hindi: थोमा (thomā)

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2381 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Nestle, Eberhard; Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012), Novum Testamentum Graece‎^[1], 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN