Bible Dictionary

Hymenaeus

(belonging to marriage), the name of a person occurring twice in the correspondence between St. Paul and Timothy; the first time classed with Alexander, (1 Timothy 1:20) and the second time classed w…

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(belonging to marriage), the name of a person occurring twice in the correspondence between St. Paul and Timothy; the first time classed with Alexander, (1 Timothy 1:20) and the second time classed with Philetus. (2 Timothy 2:17,18) (A.D. 66-7.) He denied the true doctrine of the resurrection.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary

HYMENAE'US (hymeneal) is mentioned The Striped Hyaena. once with Alexander and once with Philetus. He is first, 1 Tim 1:20, represented as having made shipwreck of his faith, and then as having denied the doctrine of a future resurrection of the body, 2 Tim 2:17. Paul delivered him up to Satan, which probably refers to ecclesiastical excommunication.