Bible Person
Meaning: who kisses · Male · 1 cross reference
Philemon is the Christian addressed in the New Testament letter that bears his name. He belongs to the network of household-based believers whose relationships become a testing ground for gospel-shaped reconciliation. First appears in Phlm 1:1.1
AI summary: Philemon matters because his single opening reference evokes a whole situation in which the gospel confronts status, debt, and brotherhood. The entry highlights Christian fellowship not as sentiment alone but as costly, relational obedience. Taken together, the material presents Philemon as a central lay believer in a defining New Testament appeal.1
Central Figure
Philemon
Meaning: who kisses
An inhabitant of Colosse, and apparently a person of some note among the citizens (Col.
An inhabitant of Colosse, and apparently a person of some note among the citizens (Col. 4:9; Philemon 1:2). He was brought to a knowledge of the gospel through the instrumentality of Paul (19), and held a prominent place in the Christian community for his piety and beneficence (4-7). He is called in the epistle a “fellow-labourer,” and therefore probably held some office in the church at Colosse; at all events, the title denotes that he took part in the work of spreading a knowledge of the gospel. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.