Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
A “deaconess of the church at Cenchrea,” the port of Corinth. She was probably the bearer of Paul’s epistle to the Romans. Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; “for she hath been,” says he, “a succourer of many, and of myself also” (Rom. 16:1, 2).
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
[Phoebe]
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
PHE'BE (shining). See Phobe.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
shining; pure