"A "deaconess of the church at Cenchrea," the port of Corinth." She was probably the bearer of Paul's epistle to the Romans. "Paul commended her to the Christians at Rome; "for she hath" "been," says he, "a succourer of many, and of myself also" (Rom." "16:1, 2)."
Definition of Phebe:
"shining; pure"