Timotheus: meaning of the name

Timotheus in Hebrew and Greek

Who named Timotheus in the Bible

• Timotheus

  24 verses · first mentioned in Acts 16:1

Timotheus in Scripture

“Timotheus” appears in 19 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

• Acts 16:1

  Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

• Acts 17:14

  And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

• Acts 17:15

  And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

• Acts 18:5

  And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

• 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.

• 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.

• Romans 16:21

  Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

• 1 Corinthians 4:17

  For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.