Word Summary
Onēsimos: "useful", Onesimus, a Christian
Original Word: ὈνήσιμοςTransliteration: Onēsimos
Phonetic Spelling: (on-ay'-sim-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: "useful", Onesimus, a Christian
Meaning: Onesimus -- "useful", a Christian
Strong's Concordance
Onesimus.
From oninemi; profitable; Onesimus, a Christian -- Onesimus.
see GREEK oninemi
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3682: ὈνήσιμοςὈνήσιμος,
Ὀνησίμου,
ὁ (i. e. profitable, helpful; from
ὄνησις profit),
Onesimus, a Christian, the slave of Philemon:
Philemon 1:10;
Colossians 4:9. (Cf.
Lightfoots Commentary, introduction, Hackett in
B. D.)