Herodion

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Romans 16:11

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Romans 16:11. Whom Paul sends greetings to, calling him "my kinsman."

Holman Bible Dictionary

Romans 16:11Romans 16:10

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

HERODION A Christian mentioned in Romans 16:11 , apparently a Jew, and perhaps a freedman of the Herods.

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

(Ἡρωδίων, Westcott-Hort’s Greek TestamentἩρῳδίων Romans 16:11, a Greek name, suggesting connexion with the family of the Herods).-Herodion is saluted by St. Paul and is described as ‘my kinsman’ (τὸν συγγενῆ μου). Other ‘kinsmen’ saluted in Romans 16 are Andronicus and Junias (or Junia) (Romans 16:7), while three ‘kinsmen’ send salutations in Romans 16:21. That St. Paul means that these poisons were relations of his is unlikely. It is this interpretation which has given rise to one of the difficulties felt in deciding the destination of the passage Romans 16:3-20. Almost certainly we should understand ‘fellow-Jews’ or ‘fellow-members of my tribe’ (see Romans 9:5). Lightfoot connects Herodion with ‘the household of Aristobulus’ saluted in the preceding verse. He considers that Aristobulus was a member of the Herodian family, and that his ‘household’ would naturally include many Orientals and Jews, and therefore probably some Christians ( Philippians 4 1878, p. 175). Of the latter, Herodion may have been one. Others have conjectured that Herodion belonged to ‘the household of Narcissus’ saluted in the verse which follows.

T. B. Allworthy.

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Kinsman of Paul, saluted by him. Romans 16:11 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Hero'dion. A relative of St. Paul, to whom he sends his salutation, amongst the Christians of the Roman church. Romans 16:11. (A.D. 55).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

hē̇ - rō´di - on ( Ἡρωδίων , Hērōdı́ōn  ; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Ἡρῳδίων ): A R oman Christian to whom Paul sent greetings (Romans 16:11 ). The name seems to imply that he was a freedman of the Herods, or a member of the household of Aristobulus, the grandson of Herod the Great (Romans 16:10 ). Paul calls him "my kinsman," i.e. "a Jew" (see Junias , 1).

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( ῾Ηρωδίων , a deriv. from Herod), a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent a salutation as his kinsman (Romans 16:11). A.D. 55. According to Hippolytus, he became bishop of Tarsus, but according to others, of Patra.