klo'-pas (Klopas): The former in the Revised Version (British and American), the latter in the King James Version, ofJoh 19:25, for the name of the husband of one of the women who stood by the cross of Christ. Upon the philological ground of a variety in pronunciation of the Hebrew root, sometimes identified with Alpheus, the father of James the Less. Said by tradition to have been the brother of Joseph, the husband of Mary; seeBRETHREN OF THE LORD. Distinguished from Cleopas, a Greek word, while Clopas is Aramaic
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