Dionysius

In Bible versions:

Dionysius: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

an important man of Athens who was converted to Christianity.

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divinely touched

Arts:

Arts Topics: Portraits of Dionysius

Greek

Strongs #1354: dionusiov Dionusios

Dionysius = "devoted to Bacchus"

1) an Athenian, a member of the Areopagus, converted to Christianity
by Paul

1354 Dionusios dee-on-oo'-see-os

from Dionusos (Bacchus); reveller; Dionysius, an Athenian:-Dionysius.

Dionysius [EBD]

the Areopagite, one of Paul's converts at Athens (Acts 17:34).

Dionysius [NAVE]

DIONYSIUS, a convert of Paul, Acts 17:34.

DIONYSIUS [SMITH]

(devoted to Dionysus , i.e., Bacchus) the Areop?agite, (Acts 17:34) an eminent Athenian, converted to Christianity by the preaching of St. Paul. (A.D. 52.) He is said to have been first bishop of Athens. The writings which were once attributed to him are now confessed to be the production of some neo-Platonists of the sixth century.

DIONYSIUS [ISBE]

DIONYSIUS - di-o-nish'-i-us (Dionusios, surnamed "the Areopagite"): One of the few Athenians converted by Paul (Acts 17:34). We know nothing further about him (see AREOPAGUS). According to one account he was the first bishop of the church at Athens; according to another he suffered martyrdom in that city under Domitian. We are even told that he migrated to Rome and was sent to Paris, where he was beheaded on Montmartre (Mount of the Martyr). The patron saint of France is Denys; compare the French "Denys d'Halicarnasse" (Dionysius of Halicarnassus). The mystical writings which were circulated in the Middle Ages and are still extant, are pronounced by the best authorities to be forgeries, and date from a period not earlier than the 5th century.

J. E. Harry