The Hermes (i.e., "the speaker") of the Greeks, a heathen God represented as the constant attendant of Jupiter, and the god of eloquence. The inhabitants of Lystra took Paul for this god because he was the "chief speaker." Definition from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897, public domain), a 19th-century Christian reference work.
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- Acts 14:12bsb
Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes, because he was the chief speaker.
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