Olympas

Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament

(Ὀλυμπᾶς, a Greek name, contracted from Olympiodorus)

Olympas is the fifth of a group of five persons, ‘and all the saints that are with them,’ saluted by St. Paul in  Romans 16:15, probably as forming an ἐκκλησία or household or district church in Rome or Ephesus. If the first two persons in the group, Philologus and Julia (which see), were husband and wife, it is possible that ‘Nereus and his sister and Olympas’ were their family. But there is nothing further known of any one of them.

T. B. Allworthy.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

A Christian at Rome ( Romans 16:15). The addition, "and all the saints which are with them," implies that each of the five, of whom Olympas is one, was a center round whom others gathered for prayer, edification, and good works.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Olym'pas. (Heavenly). A Christian at Rome.  Romans 16:15. (A.D. 65).

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

OLYMPAS . The name of a member of the Roman Church greeted by St. Paul in   Romans 16:15 .

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A believer in Christ of this name. ( Romans 16:15)

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Romans 16:15 Romans 16:15

Morrish Bible Dictionary

A Christian at Rome saluted by Paul.  Romans 16:15 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Romans 16:15

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ṓ - lim´pas ( Ὀλυμπὰς , Olumpás ): The name of a Roman Christian to whom Paul sent greetings (  Romans 16:15 ). Olympas is an abbreviated form of Olympiadorus. The joining in one salutation of the Christians mentioned in  Numbers 16:15 suggests that they formed by themselves a small community in the earliest Roman church.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( Ολυμπᾶς , from the same etymology as Olympius [q.v.]), a Christian at Rome, saluted by Paul in his epistle to the Church in that city ( Romans 16:15). A.D. 55. The context, perhaps, implies that he was of the household of Philologus. It is stated by pseudo-Hippolytus that he was one of the seventy disciples, and underwent martyrdom at Rome; and Baronius ventures to give A.D. 69 as the date of his death,

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Olym´pas, a Christian at Rome, whom Paul salutes in his Epistle to the Romans .