Bible Names

Erastus: meaning of the name

Erastus means “lovely, amiable.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Erastus in Hebrew and Greek

Ἔραστος G2037

Érastos — beloved; Erastus, a Christian

from (to love);

Who named Erastus in the Bible

Erastus in Scripture

“Erastus” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 19:22

    So he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him, Timotheus and Erastus; but he himself stayed in Asia for a season.

  • Romans 16:23

    Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

  • 2 Timothy 4:20

    Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.