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Do you have a need to find a "Phoebe" in the OT (some sort of specific research, etc.)?

Obviously, you've already found the text in Romans, and since others have commented on that, I'll spare you the repetition. However, there is something more, about which you ought to be aware:

Regarding spelling, remember that English translations have Anglicized text -- and that English has itself changed a great deal over even the past 100-150 years (and even more when you go back farther); thus "Phebe" and "Phoebe" are equally correct.

What we have translated "Jesus" was actually the most common name of His contemporaries -- and modern translations include not only "Jesus" but also "Jesse" and other names that we would ordinarily think of as being entirely different.

If you look hard enough, you will find cults and factions that say asinine things like "you must (pray, be baptised, etc.) in Jesus' name" -- the theological inaccuracy of which isn't immediately obvious until you realize they're talking about the term created when one arranges the letters "J-E-S-U-S" in that sequence:

They're idolizing an English word that has virtually nothing to do with the person of the Christ. Doing this or that "in the Name of Jesus" is only theologically sound when:

(a) the phrase "in the name of" is used to describe diligent exercise of the concept of legal agency, AND

(b) "Jesus" refers to the Christ, the only *begotten* Son of God (remembering that each person believing in Him is also a son of God -- and that in this case, "son" is a term that applies equally to each person, regardless of physical gender)

There is a similar group of idolaters, who claim that "Yeshua" is the proper name of the only *begotten* Son of God, and that "Jesus" is an invalid term.

Both groups assume God is either (a) too stupid to recognize the intent of the utterer or (b) such a pedant that any hope for mercy is futile.

2006-08-20 11:36:21 · answer #1 · answered by wireflight 4 · 0 0

I know of no-one by the name of Phoebe in either the Old or New Testament. When Paul was imprisoned and sent to Felix, he was allowed to have his own house in Rome. On the way, the ship made a few stops. At a Corinthian seaport named Cenchrea, he witnessed to a few Jewish believers. Among them was Phebe--one of the early converts. After he returned to Jerusalem, he reported to James the Head and then sent letters of encouragement to the new believers, among them a sister by the name of Phebe: Romans 16:1 -" I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea."
Boaz.

2006-08-20 11:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by Boaz 4 · 0 0

Don't think the name is in the old testament.

Found this as to where it's found in the new testament: "Paul's epistle to the Romans in the New Testament"

2006-08-20 11:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

In the entire Bible, I only find one mention of Phoebe, in Romans 16, so I think that might be it!
Oddly enough, I might also *** that this name does not seem to appear at all in the King James version.
Strange...

2006-08-20 11:13:45 · answer #4 · answered by Ron Burgundy 2 · 0 0

I really not sure but in Paul`s journey to the seven churches after Christ resurrection . wasn`t she a servant of the church of Cenchrea ,a sister in Christ and Paul told the brethern to help her and assist her in anything she needed.I believe she was a succorer of many the Bible says and also of Paul.I don`t think you will find her in the old Testment.She wasn`t super natural.

2006-08-20 11:52:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

another name is Phebe and no can't be found in the Old but in the new Romans 16:1

2006-08-20 11:15:23 · answer #6 · answered by sarell 6 · 0 0

If you are looking in the Bible there is no such book, but there are more book that go along with the bible in the Morman "Bible"

2006-08-20 11:12:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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