(Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety
(New Testament) a Christian (probably living in Colossae) whose slave escaped and went to see Saint Paul
a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping
The eighteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of Saint Paul to a fellow Christian called Philemon.