Lois

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


LOIS.—The grandmother of Timothy (2Ti_1:5), and probably the mother of Eunice, Timothy’s mother. The name is Greek. The family lived at Lystra (Act_16:1), where St. Paul first made their acquaintance. Lois was a devout Jewess by conviction, who instructed her family diligently in the Holy Scriptures.
Morley Stevenson.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Mother of Eunice, Timothy's mother (2Ti_1:5). The Greek names mark Greek origin, though she was a Jewess in religion and the father a Greek, i.e. pagan; Lystra was her home. The family pedigree of "indwelling faith" began first with Lois, the farthest back of Timothy's progenitors whom Paul knew. She and Eunice were probably converted at Paul's first visit to Lystra (Act_14:6-7). The belief of the mother and grandmother alone is implied in 2 Timothy 1, in undesigned harmony with Acts 16, not of the father; a mark of genuineness. One godly parent may counteract the bad influence of the ungodly, and win the child to Christ (1Co_7:14; 2Ti_3:15).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Lo'is. (agreeable). The grandmother of Timothy, and doubtless, the mother of his mother, Eunice. 2Ti_1:5. It seems likely that Lois had resided long at Lystra; and almost certain that from her, as well as from Eunice, Timothy obtained his intimate knowledge of the Jewish Scriptures. 2Ti_3:15. (A.D. before 64).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


lō?is (Λωῖς, Lōı̄́s (2Ti_1:5)): The grandmother of Timothy, and evidently the mother of Eunice, Timothy's mother. The family lived at Lystra (Act_16:1). It was on the occasion of Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 14) that Eunice and Timothy were converted to Christ, and it was, in all likelihood, on the same occasion that Lois also became a Christian. Paul speaks of the unfeigned faith that there was in Timothy, and he adds that this faith dwelt at the first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice. This is the only passage where Lois is mentioned; but by comparing 2Ti_1:5 with 2Ti_3:15 (the King James Version), where Paul refers to Timothy's having ?from a child known the holy scriptures,? it would appear that Lois was associated with Eunice, both in a reverent faith in God and in the careful instruction in the Old Testament which was given to Timothy. See EUNICE; TIMOTHY.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Lois, the grandmother of Timothy, not by the side of his father, who was a Greek, but by that of his mother. Hence the Syriac has 'thy mother's mother.' She is commended by St. Paul for her faith (2Ti_1:5); for although she might not have known that the Christ was come, and that Jesus of Nazareth was He, she yet believed in the Messiah to come, and died in that faith.




The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Lois
(Λωϊvς, perh. agreeable), the grandmother of Timothy, not by the side of his father, who was a Greek, but by that of his mother. Hence the Syriac has “thy mother's mother." She is commended by the apostle Paul for her faith (2Ti_1:5); for, although she might not have known that the Christ had come, and that Jesus of Nazareth was he, she yet believed in the Messiah to come, and died in that faith. Ante A.D. 64. SEE TIMOTHY.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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