green herb
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
CHLOE (mentioned only in 1Co_1:11).St. Paul had been informed of the dissensions at Corinth prob. by some of her Christian slaves. Chloe herself may have been either a Christian or a beathen, and may have lived either at Corinth or at Ephesus. In favour of the latter is St. Pauls usual tact, which would not suggest the invidious mention of his informants names, if they were members of the Corinthian Church.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
1Co_1:11. A matron at Corinth, some of whose household informed Paul of the divisions in the Corinthian church. The Corinthians had "written" to Paul consulting him about marriage, things offered to idols, decorum in church assemblies, but not a syllable about the disorders that had crept in. That information reached him from other quarters: compare 1Co_5:1-2. "It hath been declared unto me," "it is reported." All this he says before he notices their letter, which shows it gave him no intimation of these evils. An undesigned proof of genuineness (Paley). He names the family, to show he has authority for his allegation, but not individuals, to avoid exciting odium against them. He tacitly implies that the information ought to have come from their presbyters, who consulted him about matters of less importance.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Chlo'e. (green herb). A woman mentioned in 1Co_1:11.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
klō?ē̇ (Χλόη, Chlóē, ?a tender shoot?): A woman, presumably a Christian, mentioned only in 1Co_1:11. She was a resident either of Corinth or of Ephesus. Paul had been informed by some of her household, probably Christian slaves, of the dissensions in the church at Corinth. Nothing more is known of her.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chlo?e, a Christian woman at Corinth, some members of whose family afforded Paul intelligence concerning the divisions which reigned in the church at that place (1Co_1:11).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Chloe
(Χλόη, verdure, a classical name), a female Christian mentioned in 1Co_1:11, some of whose household (ὑπὸ τῶν Χλόης, where there is doubtless an ellipsis of οἰκείων, comp. Rom_16:10-11) had informed the apostle Paul of the fact that there were divisions in the Corinthian Church. A.D. 54. She is supposed by Theophylact and others to have been an inhabitant of Corinth; by Estius, some Christian woman known to the Corinthians elsewhere; by Michaelis and Meyer, an Ephesian, having friends at Corinth. SEE CORINTHIANS, EPISTLES TO.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.