アイリーン(Irene)は聖書に登場するか?いいえ、しかしそれは新約聖書における平和という言葉です



  • No one named Irene appears in the Bible. The name is eirēnē, the Greek word for peace, which occurs 92 times in the New Testament.
  • The risen Jesus greets his disciples with eirēnē hymin (John 20:19), and Paul opens all thirteen of his letters with a wish for grace and peace.
  • Irene has no Hebrew form. The Septuagint uses eirēnē to translate the Hebrew シャローム(平安).
  • In Greek religion Eirene was the goddess of peace, one of the Horae.
  • Irene of Thessalonica was martyred in 304 for keeping copies of the Scriptures, and the island of Santorini is named after her.
  • The empress Irene of Athens called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which restored the veneration of icons.

No one named Irene appears in the Bible. The name is the Greek word for peace, eirēnē, which occurs 92 times in the New Testament. It became a Christian name through early martyrs such as Irene of Thessalonica, who was put to death in 304 for keeping copies of the Scriptures. Is Irene in the Bible? No person in the Old or New Testament is called Irene, and no translation uses it as a name. The word it comes from…

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