Elymas
ELYMAS
A Jewish sorcerer in the retinue of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul at Paphos in Cyprus. He was sharply reproved by Paul, and struck with instant blindness for opposing the religious inquiries of the proconsul, who was abandoning idolatry and superstition, and embracing the gospel, Mal 13:6-12 . His blindness was to continue “for a season,” and may have led to his spiritual illumination.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Elymas
See Bar-Jesus.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Elymas
(or Elymas) (Son of Jesus) (wise, magician) A false prophet, struck temporarily blind for opposing Paul at Paphos in the conversion of Proconsul Sergius Paulus (Acts 13).
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Elymas
(), an appellative commonly derived from the Arabic Aliman (“a wise man,” see Pfeiffer, Dubia vex. page 941; like the Turkish title Ulema, see Lakemacher, De Elyma Mago, in his Observatt. 2:162), which Luke interprets by , the Magian or “sorcerer:” it is applied to a Jew named BAR-JESUS, who had attached himself to the proconsul of Cyprus, Sergius Paulus, when Paul visited the island (Act 13:6 sq.). A.D. 44. On his attempting to dissuade the proconsul from embracing the Christian faith, he was struck with miraculous blindness by the apostle (see Neander’s History of first Planting of the Christian Church, 1:125). A very different but less probable derivation of the word is given by Lightfoot in his Hebrew and Talmudical Exercitations on the Acts (Works, 8:461), and in his Sermon on Elymas the Sorcerer (Works, 7:104). Chrysostom observes, in reference to the blindness inflicted by the apostle on Bar-Jesus, that the limiting clause, for a season, “shows that it was not intended so much for the punishment of the sorcerer as for the conversion of the deputy (Chrysost. in Acta Apost. Homeil. 28; Opera, 9:241). On the practice generally then prevailing, in the decay of faith, of consulting Oriental impostors of this kind, see Conybeare and Howson, Life of St. Paul, 1:177-180, 2d ed. SEE MAGIC.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Elymas (2)
a presbyter, martyred in Persia under Decius; commemorated April 22.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Elymas
magician or sorcerer, the Arabic name of the Jew Bar-jesus, who withstood Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus. He was miraculously struck with blindness (Acts 13:11).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Elymas
Arabic (alim, “wise,” related to ulema) for Barjesus, the Jew sorcerer associated with Sergius Paulus. proconsul of Cyprus at Paul’s visit (Act 13:6, etc.). Struck blind for “seeking to turn away the deputy (proconsul) from the faith.” As he opposed the gospel light, in significant retribution he lost the natural light. Contrast Paul’s simultaneously receiving sight and the Holy Spirit (Act 9:17). As belief in religion declined under the Roman empire, belief in eastern magic increased.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Elymas
ELYMAS.See Bar-jesus.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Elymas
The sorcerer. His name answers to the character, for it means magician. (Act 13:8)
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Elymas
eli-mas (, Elumas, wise; Act 13:8). See BAR-JESUS.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Elymas
Elymas, an appellative supposed to mean a wise man, applied to a Jew named Bar-Jesus, mentioned in Act 13:6-11. Chrysostom observes, in reference to the blindness inflicted by the Apostle on Bar-Jesus, that the limiting clause ‘for a season,’ shows that it was not intended so much for the punishment of the sorcerer as for the conversion of the deputy.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Elymas
[El’ymas]
A name signifying ‘magician,’ applied to BAR-JESUS, a Jew. He was a false prophet and sorcerer, at Paphos in Cyprus, and sought to turn away the proconsul from the faith. He was for a time smitten with blindness. Act 13:6-12.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Elymas
A false prophet punished with blindness.
Act 13:8; Act 13:10
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Elymas
El’ymas. (a wise man). The Arabic name of the Jewish magus or sorcerer, Bar-jesus. Act 13:6 ff. (A.D. 44).