GREEK · G1152
Δάμαρις
Damaris — Damaris
Δάμαρις, -ιδος, ἡ (δάμαρ, poët., a wife), Damaris: Act.17:34.† (AS)
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Damaris
Original Hebrew / Aramaic / Greek connected to this term
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Historical dictionary entry
A heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34). Some have supposed that she may have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.
Scripture references
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.