Ἑρμῆς
Hermēs · G2060 · Greek · 2 occurrences
This name belongs to 2 people
- Paulfirst named in Acts 7:58179 verses
- Hermesfirst named in Romans 16:141 verse
Meanings
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Hermes
A Greek god
ExamplesActs 14:12 And they began calling Barnabas, Zeus, and Paul, Hermes, since he was the chief speaker.
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Hermes
A person greeted in Romans 16:14
ExamplesRomans 16:14 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers and sisters with them.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Hermes93.124a
- In Acts 14:12, the crowd at Lystra began calling Paul “Hermes, since he was the chief speaker” — here the name of the Greek god, applied to Paul.
- Hermes93.124b
- In Romans 16:14, Paul greets a believer named “Hermes” among the Roman congregation — a different figure sharing the same name, a Christian rather than a pagan deity.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon accusative Ἑρμῆν, ὁ, proper name, Hermes; 1. a Greek deity called by the Romans Mercurius…
1. a Greek deity called by the Romans Mercurius (Mercury): Acts 14:12.
2. a certain Christian: Rom 16:14.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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