Artemas (Hastings' Dictionary)

A trusted companion of St. Paul, H the later part of his life (Tit 3'-). According to Dorotheus {Jiibl. Maxima, Lugd. 1677, iii. p. 429) he had been one of the 70 disciples, and was after- wards bishop of Lystra, but there is no extant evidence to support either statement. An Artemas is honoured in the Greek Meniea for April 28, but apparently he is not the same. AlthouL'h Jerome {de num.

Hebrnicis) treats the name as Hebrew,and explains it as 'anatheraatizans sive conturbans,' it is undoubtedly Greek, formed from 'ApTf/us (cf. 'Kpfias, 'OXvfiTat, ZtivS.!, 'E7ra0pas), perhaps by contraction from Arteniidorus, a name common in Asia Minor. W. Lock.