STRONGS G1889:
Ἐπαφρᾶς,
-ᾶ [Buttmann, 20 (17f)],
ὁ,
Epaphras, a Christian man mentioned in
Colossians 1:7;
Colossians 4:12;
Philemon 1:23. The conjecture of some that the name is contracted from
Ἐπαφρόδιτος (which see [cf. Winers Grammar, 103 (97)]) and hence, that these two names belong to one and the same man, is not probable; [see
B. D. American edition under the word Epaphras; Bp. Lightfoot's Commentary on Philippians, p. 61, note
4]. The name is common in inscriptions.
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