Euodias

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

See SYNTYCHE.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Philippians 4:2

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

EUODIAS, rather, Euodia. A Christian woman, perhaps a deaconess or one of influence at Philippi (Acts 17:12). See Philippians 4:2-3, "I beseech Euodia, and beseech Syntyche (he beseeches each separately), that they be of the same mind in the Lord. And ('yea' in the Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus manuscripts) I entreat thee also, true yokefellow, help them (i.e. cooperate with, or as Alford, help toward the reconciliation of, Euodia and Syntyche) inasmuch as they labored with me in the gospel."

At Philippi women were the first hearers of the gospel, and Lydia the first convert. The coincidence marks genuineness, that in the Epistle to the Philippians alone instructions are given to women who labored with Paul in the gospel, not without danger (Acts 16:13; Acts 16:19-20; Philippians 1:28). Euodia and Syntyche were two of "the women who resorted to the river side, where prayer was wont to be made." Being early converted, they would naturally take a leading part in teaching the gospel to other women, in a private sphere of labor (1 Timothy 2:11-12).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Philippians 4:2Philippians

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A Christian woman at Philippi who is exhorted with Syntyche to be "of the same mind in the Lord." Philippians 4:2 .

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Euo'dias. (fragrant). A Christian woman at Philippi. Philippians 4:2. (A.D. 57). The name is correctly Euodia, as given in the Revised Version.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Euo´dias, a female member of the church at Philippi, who seems to have been at variance with another female member named Syntyche. Paul describes them as women who had 'labored much with him in the Gospel,' and implores them to be of one mind .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

or, rather, EUODIA (Εὐοδία, a good journey; for, as found in Philippians 9:2, Εὐοδίαν is fem., since the following verse refers to that and the associated name by αὐταῖς and αἵτινες ), a female member of the Church at Philippi, who seems to have been at variance with another female member named Syntyche. A.D. 57. Paul describes them as women who had "labored much with him in the Gospel," and implores their. to be of one mind (Philippians 4:2-3).