Meaning
"to put a name upon" (epi, "upon," kaleo, "to call"), "to surname," is used in this sense in the Passive Voice, in some texts in Mat 10:3 (it is absent in the best); in Luk 22:3, in some texts (the best have kaleo, "to call"); Act 1:23, Act 4:36, Act 10:5, Act 10:18, Act 10:32, Act 11:13, Act 12:12, Act 12:25; in some texts, Act 15:22 (the best have kaleo).
Notes: (1) In Mar 1:3-17, "He surnamed" is a translation of epitithemi, "to put upon, to add to," with anoma, "a name," as the object. (2) In Act 15:37, AV, kaleo, "to call" (RV, "called"), is rendered "whose surname was." (3) The verb eponomazo, translated "bearest the name" in Rom 2:17, RV, finds a literal correspondence in the word "surname" (epi, "upon," : sur), and had this significance in Classical Greek.
