Bible Names

Apollos: meaning of the name

Apollos means “one who destroys; destroyer.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Apollos in Hebrew and Greek

Ἀπολλῶς G625

Apollōs — Apollos, an Israelite

probably from the same as G624 (Ἀπολλωνία);

Who named Apollos in the Bible

Apollos in Scripture

“Apollos” appears in 10 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Acts 18:24

    And a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and mighty in the scriptures, came to Ephesus.

  • Acts 19:1

    And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

  • 1 Corinthians 1:12

    Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:4

    For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

  • 1 Corinthians 3:5

    Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

  • 1 Corinthians 3:6

    I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

  • 1 Corinthians 3:22

    Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

  • 1 Corinthians 4:6

    And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.