Mattathias is used as a personal name within a genealogy, marking a person in a son-of lineage.

The attested form identifies a person within successive son-of relationships in the genealogy: it occurs once as the named son and once as the named father in the surrounding sequence.

1. Personal name in a genealogy · dominant

   In Luke 3:25, the genitive singular masculine form occurs in the clause rendered by the APB as “the son of Mattathias,” placing the named person within a sequence of fathers and sons. In Luke 3:26, the same form occurs in the clause rendered “the son of Mattathias,” again identifying a person by descent.

   Luke 3:25Luke 3:26

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across Luke 3:25 and Luke 3:26, the APB presents the name in the repeated genealogical wording “the son of Mattathias.” It confirms the lineage setting rather than isolating the term's contribution beyond the name.