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Epaenetus
Biblical Persons & Places
Epaenetus
Man living at the time of the New Testament
A man living at the time of the New Testament, only mentioned at Rom.16.5;
only referred to as Epaenetus (Ἐπαίνετος).
Strong's Definition
praised; Epænetus, a Christian
Derivation: from G1867 (ἐπαινέω);
KJV Usage: Epenetus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Ἐπαίνετος (so Winers Grammar, § 6, 1 50 (cf. Chandler § 325); Ἐπαίνετος Rec.st T; see Tdf. Proleg., p. 103; Lipsius, Gram. Unters., p. 30f; Roehl, Inscriptions index iii.) (ἐπαινέω), Ἐπαινετου, ὁ, Epaenetus, the name of a Christian mentioned in Rom_16:5.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
Ἐπαίνετος Epainetos 1x
Epaenetus, pr. name, Rom_16:5
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Ἐπαίνετος
( Rec. -τός ), -ου , ὁ ,
Epζnetus , a Christian of Borne: Rom_16:5 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
Ἐπαίνετος [page 227]
This proper name ( Rom_16:5 ) is found in an imprecatory tablet from Corcyra, Syll 808 .4 : cf. the list of names from Hermopolis Magna Preisigke 599 .150 (Ptol.) Ἐπαίνετος Θόαντος , and the fem. in Michel 1503 D. i. 29 (ii/i B.C.) Ἐ ]παινέτη Ἀριστοβούλου . For the adj., apparently in an active sense, cf. the rhetorical fragment PSI I. 85 .4 (iii/A.D.) ἀπομνημόνευμα σύντομον ἐπὶ προσώπου τινὸς ἐπενετόν ( l. ἐπαινετόν ), a concise laudatory memoir regarding some person : see further s.v. ἀπομνημόνευμα .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
Ἐπαίνετος (Rec. -τός), -ου, ὁ
Epænetus, a Christian of Borne: Rom.16:5.†
(AS)