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Strong's #2037 - Ἔραστος
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Erastus = "beloved"
- a companion of the apostle Paul
- the chamberlain or rather the public treasurer, of Corinth
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ἐραστ-ός, ή, όν,
= ἐρατός,
beloved, lovely, in Prose the usual form, Pl. Smp. 204c, Phdr. 250d; also in [ Simon. ] 178.1; τόνδε δρόμον ποίησεν ἐραστόν IG 12.817: Comp., AP 12.197 (Strat.).
Ἔραστος, Ἐραστου, ὁ, Erastus, (ἐραστός beloved, (cf. Chandler § 325; Lipsius, Gram. Untersuch., p. 30)), the name of two Christians:
1. the companion of the apostle Paul, Acts 19:22;
2. the city treasurer of Corinth, Romans 16:23. Which of the two is meant in 2 Timothy 4:20 cannot be determined.
STRONGS NT 2037a: ἐραυνάω ἐραυνάω, a later and especially Alexandrian (cf. Sturz, Dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 117) form for ἐρευνάω, which see. Cf. Tdf. edition 7 min. Proleg., p. 37; (the major edition, p. 34; especially ed. 8 Proleg., p. 81f); Buttmann, 58 (50).
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Έραστος , -ου , ὁ ,
Erastus;
1. a companion of St. Paul, Acts 19:22, and prob. 2 Timothy 4:20.
2. The treasurer of Corinth, Romans 16:23.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For this common name it is sufficient to refer to Syll 388 (A.D. 129) where we hear of an Ἔραστος, a shipowner of Ephesus.
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