gain; refuge
(same as Hermas, Mercury)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
God of athletes sport gambling commerce communications eloquence luck medicine oratory roads and wind Greek
Gods and Goddess Reference
HERMES.One of those greeted in Rom_16:14, possibly a slave in Caesars household. Hermes was a very common slaves name (Lightfoot, Philipp, p. 176).
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
("saluted".) Rom_16:14. One of the seventy, and bishop of Dalmatia afterward, according to tradition (?).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Her'mes. (Mercury). See Hermas.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Her?mes, the Mercurius of the Romans, was the messenger of the gods, and was equally characterized by adroitness of action and readiness of speech. He was also the customary attendant of Jupiter when he appeared on earth. These circumstances explain why the inhabitants of Lystra (Act_14:12), as soon as ever they were disposed to believe that the gods had visited them in the likeness of men, discovered Hermes in Paul, as the chief speaker, and as the attendant of Jupiter.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Hermes
( ῾Ερμῆς, i.e. the Greek Mercury [q.v. ]) the name of a man mentioned in the Epistle to the Romans as a disciple at Rome (Rom_16:14). A.D. 55. According to the Greeks, says Calmet (Dict. s.v.), he was one of the seventy disciples, and afterwards bishop of Dalmatia. His festival occurs in their calendar upon April 8 (Neale, Eastern Church, 2, 774).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.