damaris Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
damaris in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34). Some have supposed that she may have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.
damaris in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul's preaching. #Ac 17:34| (A.D 48.) Chrysostom and others held her to have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.
damaris in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
DAM'ARIS (a heifer), a woman, probably of distinction, who was converted under Paul's preaching in Athens. Because she is mentioned, Acts 17:34, immediately after Dionysius the Areopagite, Chrysostom and others maintained she was the latter's wife. But the very mode of mentioning -"a woman named"-is against the conjecture.
damaris in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
An Athenian woman converted by Paul's preaching (Acts 17:34.). When most "mocked" or deferred, she and Dionysius the Areopagite "clave unto Paul and believed."