Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Levi

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LEVI

GENDER: Masculine

USAGE: Hebrew, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin

OTHER SCRIPTS: לֵוִי (Hebrew)

PRONOUNCED: LEE-vie (English) [key]

Meaning & History

Means "attached" in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Levi is the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of the Israelites (the tribe that eventually became the priests of the Israelites). In the New Testament this is another name for the apostle Matthew. As an English Christian name, Levi came into use after the Protestant Reformation.

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