Bible Dictionary

Damaris

A heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34). Some have supposed that she may have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.

Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

A heifer, an Athenian woman converted to Christianity under the preaching of Paul (Acts 17:34). Some have supposed that she may have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.

Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)

(a heifer), an Athenian woman converted to Christianity by St. Paul’s preaching. ) Chrysostom and others held her to have been the wife of Dionysius the Areopagite.

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

DAM'ARIS (a heifer), a woman, probably of distinction, who was converted under Paul's preaching in Athens. Because she is mentioned, Acts 17:34, immediately after Dionysius the Areopagite, Chrysostom and others maintained she was the latter's wife. But the very mode of mentioning -"a woman named"-is against the conjecture.

Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)

a little woman