Bible Person

Damaris

Meaning: a little woman · Female · 1 cross reference

Damaris is an Athenian woman who believes Paul's message after his speech at the Areopagus. She belongs to the small but significant group of named converts in a difficult intellectual setting, though later guesses about her wider identity go beyond what Acts itself states. First appears in Acts 17:34.1

AI summary: Damaris matters because her single cross reference shows that Paul's witness in Athens was not fruitless, even if the response appears modest. Her name gives personal reality to the gospel's reach into a cosmopolitan and skeptical environment. Taken together, the material presents Damaris as a named believer emerging from Paul's Athenian mission.1

Central Figure

Damaris

Meaning: a little woman

A heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34).