Reference: Damaris

An Athenian lady, honorably distinguished as one of the few who embraced Christianity at Athens under the preaching of Paul, Ac 17:34.

a heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Ac 17:34). Some have supposed that she may have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.

An Athenian woman converted by Paul's preaching (Ac 17:34.). When most "mocked" or deferred, she and Dionysius the Areopagite "clave unto Paul and believed."

A convert at Athens (Ac 17:34). As women of the upper classes were kept more in the background there than in Macedonia or Asia Minor, she was probably not of noble birth (cf. Ac 17:4,12). The name is perhaps a corruption of Damalis, 'a heifer.' The Bezan MS omits it.

A. J. Maclean.

Dam'aris

A woman at Athens who believed the gospel preached by Paul. Ac 17:34.

Dam'aris

(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul's preaching.

Ac 17:34

(A.D 48.) Chrysostom and others held her to have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.