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Urbanus
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Urbanus: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
a man in Rome to whom Paul sent greetings
Greek
Strongs #3773: Ourbanov Ourbanos
Urbane = "of the city; polite"1) a certain Christian in Ro 16:9
3773 Ourbanos oor-ban-os'
of Latin origin; Urbanus (of the city, "urbane"), aChristian:-Urbanus.
URBANUS [SMITH]
the form given in the Revised Version for Urbane.URBANUS [ISBE]
URBANUS - ur-ba'-nus (Ourbanos; the King James Version Urbane): A common slave name. Gifford says that it is found "as here, in juxtaposition with Ampliatus, in a list of imperial freedmen, on an inscription, 115 AD." He was a member of the Christian community at Rome to whom Paul sent greetings. Paul calls him "our fellow-worker in Christ" (Rom 16:9). "The `our' (as opposed to `my,' Rom 16:3) seems to suggest that all Christian workers had a common helper in Urbanus" (Denney).