Phebe
Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)
[Phoebe]
See also: phoebe
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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).
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