Levi

n. one of the 12 tribes of Israel (Biblical); male first name; family name

This article discusses the Biblical patriarch. See Levi Strauss for the inventor of jeans, Levites for the Biblical tribe, or Matthew the Evangelist for the disciple sometimes known as "Levi". For other names and surnames, see Levi (disambiguation). Levi/Levy (Hebrew: לֵוִי, Standard Levy Tiberian ; "joining") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi (the levites); however Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation. Certain religious and political functions were reserved for the Levites, and, according to textual scholars, the early sources of the Torah - the Jahwist and Elohist - appear to treat the term Levi as just being a word meaning priest; scholars suspect that "levi" was originally a general term for a priest, and had no connection to ancestry, and that it was only later, for example in the priestly source and Blessing of Moses, that the existence of a tribe named Levi became assumed, in order to explain the origin of the priestly caste.
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Noun
1. (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel
(synonym) Matthew, Saint Matthew, St. Matthew, Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle
(hypernym) Apostle
(classification) New Testament

n. Levi, one of the 12 tribes of Israel (Biblical); male first name; family name

n. Levi, one of the 12 tribes of Israel (Biblical); male first name; family name