Greek word · G1152

Δάμαρις

damaris

Damaris

A female personal name, rare and found nowhere else in the New Testament. It may be a form of Damalis ("heifer" or "young girl"), a name that is attested elsewhere (for example in Horace, Odes 1.36).

Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·

What it means

Δάμαρις, -ιδος, ἡ

(δάμαρ, poët., a wife),

Damaris: Acts 17:34.†

(AS)

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

In depth

From the study of Acts 17:34

Range of meaning

A female personal name, rare and found nowhere else in the New Testament. It may be a form of Damalis ("heifer" or "young girl"), a name that is attested elsewhere (for example in Horace, Odes 1.36).

Against the English

All versions transliterate the name. There is no translation issue.

Used elsewhere in the period

John Chrysostom (On the Priesthood 4.7) thought she was Dionysius's wife. The Western text (Codex Bezae) leaves her out. No reliable tradition tells us more.

Where it appears

Acts · 1

  1. Acts 17:34 Δάμαρις Damaris

    But some joined him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others who were with them.

    Here: A rare female name, possibly a form of Damalis ("heifer" or "young girl"). Nothing else is known of her for certain, but naming her at all suggests that Luke's readers, or the churches, remembered her.

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