Ŏnēsĭmus, i, m., and -a, ae, f., = Ὀνησιμος, -η,
a Roman surname , Inscr. Grut. 646, 6; Vulg. Col. 4, 9.
profitable; useful ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(profitable, useful), the name of the servant or slave in whose behalf Paul wrote the Epistle to Phi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary