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Phebe in the Bible.

A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. The King James Version names Phebe in 1 verse, Romans 16:1.

Who Phebe was.

A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Rom. 16:1, 2).

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Places in Phebe’s story.

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The verse that names Phebe.

Romans 1

  • Romans 16:1I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

Questions about Phebe.

Who was Phebe in the Bible?

A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. The King James Version names Phebe in 1 verse, Romans 16:1.

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