Tryphaena

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TRYPHÆNA.—Greeted along with Tryphosa by St. Paul in Rom_16:12, and described by him as labouring in the Lord. They were probably sisters or near relations, ‘for it was usual to designate members of the same family by derivatives of the same root.’ The common root makes their names signify ‘delicate,’ ‘luxurious’—a meaning which contrasts with their active Christian toil. Inscriptions in a cemetery used chiefly for the Emperor’s servants, contain both names; if we identify them with these, then they would be among ‘the saints of Cæsar’s household’ (Php_4:22).
A Tryphæna plays a prominent part in the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.
Charles T. P. Grierson.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


tri-fē?na (Τρύφαινα, Trúphaina; the King James Version, Tryphena): Tryphaena is coupled with ?Tryphosa? - among those members of the Christian community at Rome to whom Paul sends greetings (Rom_16:12). He describes them as those ?who labor in the Lord.? ?The names, which might be rendered 'Dainty' and 'Disdain' (see Jam_5:5; Isa_66:11), are characteristically pagan, and unlike the description? (Denney). They were probably sisters or near relatives, for ?it was usual to designate members of the same family by derivatives of the same root? (Lightfoot, Phil, 175). Both names are found in inscriptions connected with the imperial household, ?Tryphosa? occurring more frequently than ?Tryphaena.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.



(Τρύφαινα, luxurious), a person mentioned in connection with Tryphosa (q.v.), the two being Christian women at Rome, who, among those that are enumerated in the conclusion of Paul's letter to that city, receive a special salutation, and on the special ground that they are engaged there in “laboring in the Lord” (Rom_16:12). A.D. 55. They may have been sisters, but it is-more likely that they were fellow-deaconesses, and among the predecessors of that large number of official women who ministered in the Church of Rome at a later period (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. 6:43); for it is to be observed that they are spoken of as at that time occupied in Christian service (τὰς κοπιώσας), while the salutation to Persis, in the same verse, is connected with past service (ἣτις ἐκοπίασεν).
We know nothing more of these two sister-workers of the apostolic time; but the name of one of them occurs curiously, with other names familiar to us in Paul's epistles, in the Apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla. See THECLA LEGEND.
There Tryphsena appears as a rich Christian widow of Antioch, who gives Thecla a refuge in her house, and sends money to Paul for the relief of the poor (see Jones, On the Canon, 2, 371, 380). It is impossible to discern any trace of probability in this part of the legend.
It is an interesting fact that the columbaria of “Caesar's household” in the Vigna Qodini, near the Porta S. Sebastiano, at Rome, contain the name Tryphaena, as well as other names mentioned in this chapter, Philologus and Julia (Eccl. 6:15), and also Amplias (Ecc_6:8). See Wordsworth, Tour in Italy (1862), 2, 173.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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