Cleophas
CLEOPHAS
The husband of Mary, Joh 19:25, called also ALPHEUS, which see. The Cleopas mentioned in Luk 24:18, probably was a different person.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Cleophas
Name of two New Testament personages, the former, one of the disciples to whom Our Lord appeared on the way to Emmaus (Luke 24); the latter, the husband of Our Lady’s sister Mary (John 19), identified as Alphreus, father of James.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Cleophas
According to the Catholic English versions the name of two persons mentioned in the New Testament. In Greek, however, the names are different, one being Cleopas, abbreviated form of Cleopatros, and the other Clopas. The first one, Cleopas, was one of the two disciples to whom the risen Lord appeared at Emmaus (Luke 24:18). We have no reliable data concerning him; his name is entered in the martyrology on the 25th of September. (See Acta Sanctorum, Sept., VII, 5 sqq.) The second, Clopas, is mentioned in St. John, xix, 25, where a Mary is called Maria he tou Klopa, which is generally translated by “Mary the wife of Clopas”. This name, Clopas, is thought by many to be the Greek transliteration of an Aramaic Alphaeus. This view is based on the identification of Mary, the mother of James etc. (Mark 15:40) with Mary, the wife of Clopas, and the consequent identity of Alphaeus, father of James (Mark 3:18), with Clopas. Etymologically, however, the identification of the two names offers serious difficulties: (1) Although the letter Heth is occasionally rendered in Greek by Kappa at the end and in the middle of words, it is very seldom so in the beginning, where the aspirate is better protected; examples of this, however, are given by Levy (Sem. Fremdwörter in Griech.); but (2) even if this difficulty was met, Clopas would suppose an Aramaic Halophai, not Halpai. (3) The Syriac versions have rendered the Greek Clopas with a Qoph, not with a Heth, as they would have done naturally had they been conscious of the identity of Clopas and Halpai; Alphaeus is rendered with Heth (occasionally Aleph). For these reasons, others see in Clopas a substitute for Cleopas, with the contraction of eo into w. In Greek, it is true, eo is not contracted into w, but a Semite, borrowing a name did not necessarily follow the rules of Greek contraction. In fact, in Mishnic Hebrew the name Cleopatra is rendered by Clopatra, and hence the Greek Cleopas might be rendered by Clopas. See also, Chabot, “Journ. Asiat.”, X, 327 (1897). Even if, etymologically, the two names are different they may have been borne by one name, and the question of the identity of Alphaeus and Clopas is still open. If the two persons are distinct, then we know nothing of Clopas beyond the fact recorded in St. John; if, on the contrary, they are identified, Clopas’ personality is or may be closely connected with the history of the brethren of the Lord and of James the Less.
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Schegg, Jakobus der Bruder des Hern (Munich, 1883); Nicoll, Alphaeus and Klopas in The Expositor (1885), 79 sqq; Wetzel, Alphaeus u. Klopas in Theolog. Stud. u. Krit. (1883), 620 sq.; Jaquier in Vig, Dict. de la Bib., s.v. Alphee; also commentaries on John xix, 25.
R. BUTIN Mary Claire Lynch
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IVCopyright © 1908 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat. Remy Lafort, CensorImprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Cleophas
or rather CLOPAS (), the husband of Marv (q.v.), the sister of Christ’s mother (Joh 19:25); probably a Graecized form of tie name elsewhere (Mat 10:3; Mar 3:18; Luk 6:16; Act 1:13; comp. Mar 15:40) called ALPHIEUS SEE ALPHIEUS (q.v.), perhaps in imitation of the name Cleopas (q.v.). See the Theol. Stud. u. Krit. 1840, 3. 648.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cleophas (2)
a martyr at Emmaus, is commemorated Sept. 25 in the old Roman and Usuard’s martyrologies.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Cleophas
(in the spelling of this word _h_ is inserted by mistake from Latin MSS.), rather Cleopas, which is the Greek form of the word, while Clopas is the Aramaic form. In John 19:25 the Authorized Version reads, “Mary, the wife of Clopas.” The word “wife” is conjecturally inserted here. If “wife” is rightly inserted, then Mary was the mother of James the Less, and Clopas is the same as Alphaeus (Matt. 10:3; 27:56).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Cleophas
CLEOPHAS.This form appears in some Latin MSS [Note: SS Manuscripts.] , and is retained in the Vulgate (though against the evidence of Codex Amiatinus) in both Luk 24:18 and Joh 19:25. It was adopted by the early English versions (Wyclifite, Tindale), and passed into the Authorized Version of 1611. It still stands there in Joh 19:25 for Clopas (wh. see), but in Luk 24:18 it was replaced in 1629 by Cleopas (wh. see).
C. T. Dimont.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Cleophas
kleo-fas. See CLOPAS.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Cleophas
[Cle’ophas] See CLEOPAS.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Cleophas
Husband of one of the Marys.
Joh 19:25
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Cleophas
Cle’ophas. Revised Version, Clo’pas, the husband of Mary, the sister of Virgin Mary. Joh 19:25. He was probably dead before Jesus’ ministry began, for his wife and children constantly appear with Joseph’s family, in the time of our Lord’s ministry. — Englishman’s Cyclopedia See Cleopas; Alphaeus.