Onesiphorus

Mentioned in AD 66 traditional (Jones)

Bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and had oft refreshed him.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Tagged in: 2 verses

Mentioned in the era of the New Testament, 4 BC to AD 100.
Named in the same verses as Aquila and Priscilla.

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, AD 41–91, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

2 tagged verses in 1 book. Select a book to read its verses.

2 Timothy2

The name in each translation

Text	Occurrences of each name
BSB	Onesiphorus 3
KJV	Onesiphorus 2
ASV	Onesiphorus 2

Whole-word, case-sensitive count of the name string (regex \bName\b, so possessives like "Abraham's" count) across the whole Bible text of each translation; this counts the string, not the person, so other people who share the name are included and pronoun references are not. How Begat counts

Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

2 Timothy2 verses

1:16
May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he has often refreshed me and was unashamed of my chains.
4:19
Greet Prisca and Aquila, as well as the household of Onesiphorus.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Bringing profit, an Ephesian Christian who showed great kindness to Paul at Rome. He served him in many things, and had oft refreshed him. Paul expresses a warm interest in him and his household (2 Tim. 1:16-18; 4:19).