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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
OLYMPAS.The name of a member of the Roman Church greeted by St. Paul in Rom_16:15.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A Christian at Rome (Rom_16:15). The addition, "and all the saints which are with them," implies that each of the five, of whom Olympas is one, was a center round whom others gathered for prayer, edification, and good works.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Olym'pas. (heavenly). A Christian at Rome. Rom_16:15. (A.D. 65).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ṓ-lim?pas (Ὀλυμπὰς, Olumpás): The name of a Roman Christian to whom Paul sent greetings (Rom_16:15). Olympas is an abbreviated form of Olympiadorus. The joining in one salutation of the Christians mentioned in Num_16:15 suggests that they formed by themselves a small community in the earliest Roman church.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Olym?pas, a Christian at Rome, whom Paul salutes in his Epistle to the Romans (Rom_16:15).
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Olympas
(Ολυμπᾶς, from the same etymology as Olympius [q.v.]), a Christian at Rome, saluted by Paul in his epistle to the Church in that city (Rom_16:15). A.D. 55. The context, perhaps, implies that he was of the household of Philologus. It is stated by pseudo-Hippolytus that he was one of the seventy disciples, and underwent martyrdom at Rome; and Baronius ventures to give A.D. 69 as the date of his death,
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.