Lexical Summary Apphia: Apphia, a Christian woman in Colossae Original Word: ἈπφίαTransliteration: Apphia Phonetic Spelling: (ap-fee'-a) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: Apphia, a Christian woman in Colossae Meaning: Apphia -- a Christian woman in Colossae Strong's Concordance Apphia. Probably of foreign origin; Apphia, a woman of Collosae -- Apphia. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 682: ἈπφίᾳἈπφίᾳ, Ἀπφιας, ἡ, Apphia, name of a woman: Philemon 1:2 (Apparently a Phrygian name expressive of endearment, cf. Suïdae Lex., Gaisf. edition, col. 534 a. Ἀπφα: ἀδελφῆς καί ἀδελφοῦ ὑποκόρισμα, etc. cf. ἀπφύς. See fully in Lightfoot's Commentary on Colossians and Philemon, p. 306ff.) |