Bible Person
Meaning: profitable; useful · Male · 2 cross references
Onesimus is the enslaved man connected to Philemon who becomes a Christian and is sent back by Paul as more than a servant. He appears in the warm relational network of Paul's prison-era ministry. First appears in Col 4:9.1
AI summary: Onesimus matters because his cross references place him both in the public life of the Colossian church and in the deeply personal appeal of Philemon. Through him, the gospel is shown reshaping status, obligation, and brotherhood rather than leaving them untouched. Taken together, the material presents Onesimus as a concrete example of Christian reconciliation transforming an unequal human relationship.1
Central Figure
Onesimus
Meaning: profitable; useful
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.