Bible Names

Sosthenes: meaning of the name

Sosthenes means “savior; strong; powerful.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sosthenes in Hebrew and Greek

Σωσθένης G4988

Sōsthénēs — of safe strength; Sosthenes, a Christian

from the base of G4982 (σώζω) and that of G4599 (σθενόω);

Who named Sosthenes in the Bible

Sosthenes in Scripture

“Sosthenes” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Acts 18:17

    Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

  • 1 Corinthians 1:1

    Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,