Bible Characters & Character Studies
Phebe
First appears at Romans 16:1
First named in Scripture at Romans 16:1 — read the chapter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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” (Romans 16:1, 2).
Reading photograph: “Colosseum in Rome, Italy - April 2007” — the Colosseum at dusk — by Diliff, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons — resized.
