Reference: Damaris
American
An Athenian lady, honorably distinguished as one of the few who embraced Christianity at Athens under the preaching of Paul, Ac 17:34.
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Easton
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.
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Fausets
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."
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Hastings
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.
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Morish
Dam'aris
A woman at Athens who believed the gospel preached by Paul. Ac 17:34.
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Smith
Dam'aris
(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul's preaching.
(A.D 48.) Chrysostom and others held her to have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.