Phebe

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phebe \Phe"be\ (f[=e]"b[-e]), n. (Zool.)
     See {Ph[oe]be}.
     [1913 Webster]

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