Lexicon Onésimos: "useful," Onesimus, a Christian Original Word: Ὀνήσιμος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Onésimos Phonetic Spelling: (on-ay'-sim-os) Short Definition: Onesimus Definition: (originally adj: useful, hence the play upon words in Philemon 10, 11, and very common as slave name), Onesimus, a slave of Philemon, a Christian of Colossae. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom onésis (use, profit, advantage) Definition"useful," Onesimus, a Christian NASB TranslationOnesimus (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3682: ὈνήσιμοςὈνήσιμος, Ὀνησίμου, ὁ (i. e. profitable, helpful; from ὄνησις profit), Onesimus, a Christian, the slave of Philemon: Philemon 1:10; Colossians 4:9. (Cf. Lightfoots Commentary, introduction, Hackett in B. D.)
Strong's Onesimus. From oninemi; profitable; Onesimus, a Christian -- Onesimus. see GREEK oninemi |
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