Bible Names

Diotrephes: meaning of the name

Diotrephes means “nourished by Jupiter.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Diotrephes in Hebrew and Greek

Διοτρεφής G1361

Diotrephḗs — Jove-nourished; Diotrephes, an opponent of Christianity

from the alternate of G2203 (Ζεύς) and G5142 (τρέφω);

Who named Diotrephes in the Bible

Diotrephes in Scripture

“Diotrephes” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • 3 John 1:9

    I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.