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phebe |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Phebe \Phe"be\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See {Ph[oe]be}. From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Phebe a "deaconess of the church at Cenchrea," the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul's epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; "for she hath been," says he "a succourer of many and of myself also" (Rom. 16:1, 2). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Phebe, shining; pure
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