What is the meaning of Philemon?

noun

  • Greek mythology. ( a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety)
  • New Testament) a Christian (probably living in Colossae) whose slave escaped and went to see Saint Paul. (
  • A New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping.
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