Phebe
[fee-bee] /ˈfi bi/
noun
1.
a female given name.
/ˈfiːbɪ/
noun
1.
a variant spelling of Phoebe1
a “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Rom. 16:1, 2).
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