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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
CRISPUS.The chief ruler of the Jewish synagogue at Corinth (Act_18:8). Convinced by the reasonings of St. Paul that Jesus was the Messiah, he believed with all his house. The Apostle mentions him (1Co_1:14) as one of the few persons whom he himself had baptized.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Ruler of the Corinthian synagogue; converted and baptized by Paul (Act_18:8; 1Co_1:14).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Cris'pus. (curled). Ruler of the Jewish synagogue at Corinth, Act_18:8, baptized with his family by St. Paul. 1Co_1:14. (A.D. 50).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kris?pus (Κρίσπος, Krı́spos, ?curled?): One of the small number baptized by Paul among the Corinthian Christians (1Co_1:14). He had been ruler of the Jewish synagogue, but he ?believed in the Lord with all his house?; and, following Paul, withdrew from the synagogue (Act_18:7, Act_18:8). He seems to have been succeeded by Sosthenes (Act_18:17). According to tradition he became bishop of Aegina.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Cris?pus, chief of the Jewish Synagogue a Corinth (Act_18:8), converted by St. Paul (1Co_1:14). According to tradition he was afterwards bishop of ?gina.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Crispus
(Κρίσπος, for Lat. Crispus, curled; found also in the Talmudists under the forms קרּיספאand קריספי), chief of the Jewish synagogue at Corinth (Act_18:8), converted and baptized by the apostle Paul (1Co_1:14) A.D. 50. According to tradition (Constitut. Apost. 7:46) he was afterwards bishop of AEgina. The Greek Church observe his festival on the 4th of October.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.