Bible Names

Roman: meaning of the name

Roman means “strong; powerful.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Roman in Hebrew and Greek

Ῥωμαῖος G4514

Rhōmaîos — Romæan, i.e. Roman (as noun)

from G4516 (Ῥώμη);

Roman in Scripture

“Roman” appears in 5 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 22:25

    And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

  • Acts 22:26

    When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.

  • Acts 22:27

    Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.

  • Acts 22:29

    Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

  • Acts 23:27

    This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.