meat market, marketplace, slaughter house, 1 Cor. 10:25*

a native of Macedonia, Acts 16:9; 19:29; 27:2; 2 Cor. 9:2, 4*

Macedonia, Acts 16:9; Rom. 15:26; 1 Cor. 16:5; 1 Thess. 1:7; 1 Tim. 1:3

a happy calling, the act of pronouncing happy, Rom. 4:6, 9; self-congratulation, Gal. 4:15*

happy, blessed, as a noun it can depict someone who receives divine favor, Mt. 5:3, 4, 5, 7; Lk. 1: 45

to pronounce happy, fortunate, Lk. 1:48; Jas. 5:11*

to be disordered in mind, mad, Jn. 10:20; Acts 12:15; 26:24, 25; 1 Cor. 14:23*

also spelled Ματθιας, BAGD suggest it is a shortened form of Ματταθιας, Matthias, pr. name, Acts 1:23, 26*