Μαρία, -ας (Hellenized form), and Μαριάμ, indecl., ἡ (Aram. מַרְיָם; Heb. (MT) מִרְיָם),
Mary. In NT;
1. the mother of Jesus: Mt 1:16 ff. 2:1113:55, Mk 6:3, Lk 1:27 ff. 2:5, 16, 19, 34, Ac 1:14.
2. M. Magdalene (q.v.).
3. The wife of Clopas (Jo 19:25) and mother of James the little, and Joses: Mt 27:56, 6128:1, Mk 15:40, 4716:1, Lk 24:10.
4. The sister of Martha and Lazarus: Lk 10:39, 42, Jo 11:1, 2, 19 ff. 12:3.
5. The mother of John Mark: Ac 12:12.
6. A Christian greeted by St. Paul: Ro 16:6 (on the signification of the name, v. Zorell, s.v.; on the use of the alternative forms in NT, DB, iii, 278 bn).†