Phebe \Phe"be\ (f[=e]"b[-e]), n. (Zool.) See {Ph[oe]be}. [1913 Webster]
Phebe 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).