Lexical Summary Onēsimos: "useful", Onesimus, a Christian Original Word: ὈνήσιμοςTransliteration: Onēsimos Phonetic Spelling: (on-ay'-sim-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: "useful", Onesimus, a Christian Meaning: Onesimus -- "useful", a Christian Strong's Concordance Onesimus. From oninemi; profitable; Onesimus, a Christian -- Onesimus. see GREEK oninemi Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3682: ὈνήσιμοςὈνήσιμος, Ὀνησίμου, ὁ (i. e. profitable, helpful; from ὄνησις profit), Onesimus, a Christian, the slave of Philemon: Philemon 1:10; Colossians 4:9. (Cf. Lightfoots Commentary, introduction, Hackett in B. D.) |