eunice Summary and Overview
Bible Dictionaries at a Glance
eunice in Easton's Bible Dictionary
happily conquering, the mother of Timothy, a believing Jewess, but married to a Greek (Acts 16:1). She trained her son from his childhood in the knowledge of the Scriptures (2 Tim. 3:15). She was distinguished by her "unfeigned faith."
eunice in Smith's Bible Dictionary
(good victory), mother of Timotheus. #2Ti 1:5| (A.D. before 47.)
eunice in Schaff's Bible Dictionary
EUNI'CE (happily victorious), the mother of the evangelist Timothy. She was by birth a Jewess, but married a Gentile. Acts 16:1; 2 Tim 1:5,
eunice in Fausset's Bible Dictionary
Timothy's mother. "In her unfeigned faith made its dwelling" (enookesen); a believing Jewess, but wedded to Timothy's father a Greek, i.e. a pagan (Acts 16:1). It is an undesigned coincidence, and so a mark of truth, that in the history just as in the epistle the faith of the mother alone is mentioned, no notice is taken of the father. Probably converted at Paul's first visit to Lystra (Acts 14:6-7). The one parent's faith sanctified the child (1 Corinthians 7:14). The Scriptures were her chief teaching to Timothy from childhood (2 Timothy 3:15). Lois, her pious mother and Timothy's grandmother, had doubtless taught herself in them: hereditary piety.