Libertines
Bible Usage:
- Libertines used once.
- Bible Reference: Acts 6:9
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: Yes
- Included in Websters: No
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
- G3032 Used 1 time
Naves Topical Index
Libertines
Freedmen.
Acts 6:9
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Libertines
This word, which occurs once only in the New Testament
(Acts 6:9)
is the Latin libertini , that is, "freedmen." They were probably Jews who, having been taken prisoners by Pompey and other Roman generals in the Syrian wars, had been reduced to slavery and had afterward been emancipated, and returned, permanently or for a time, to the country of their fathers.