Gender Masculine
Usage English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Scripts Σίλας(Greek)
Meaning & History
The name of a companion of Saint Paul in the New Testament. It is probably a short form of Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that Silvanus and Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name Saul (via Aramaic).As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g4609, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g4609.
