Lexicon Epaphras: Epaphras, a Christian Original Word: Ἐπαφρᾶς, ᾶ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Epaphras Phonetic Spelling: (ep-af-ras') Short Definition: Epaphras Definition: Epaphras, Epaphroditus, a Colossian Christian, in captivity with Paul in Rome. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom EpaphroditosDefinitionEpaphras, a Christian NASB TranslationEpaphras (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1889: ἘπαφρᾶςἘπαφρᾶς, Ἐπαφρᾶ ( Buttmann, 20 (17f)), ὁ, Epaphras, a Christian man mentioned in Colossians 1:7; Colossians 4:12; Philemon 1:23. The conjecture of some that the name is contracted from Ἐπαφρόδιτος (which see (cf. Winers Grammar, 103 (97))) and hence, that these two names belong to one and the same man, is not probable; (see B. D. American edition under the word ; Lightfoot's Commentary on Philippians, p. 61, note 4). The name is common in inscriptions.
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