Bible Names

Sopater: meaning of the name

Sopater means “Sosipater, who defends the father.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sopater in Hebrew and Greek

Σώπατρος G4986

Sṓpatros — of a safe father; Sopatrus, a Christian

from the base of G4982 (σώζω) and G3962 (πατήρ);

Who named Sopater in the Bible

Sopater in Scripture

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

  • Acts 20:4

    And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.