Ἰάσων, -ovos, 6, Jason, a Thessalonian, Paul’s host : Acts xvii. 5-7, 9; whether he is the same who is mentioned in Ro. xvi. 21 as a kinsman of Paul is uncertain.

Ἰάσων Iasōn 5x

Jason, Acts 17:5-7 (3x), 9; Rom. 16:21*

Ἰάσων, -ονος, ὁ, Jason: Ac 17:5-7, 9; perhaps the same, Ro 16:21.†

᾿Ιάσων. For this proper name cf. P Petr I. 19? (B.c. 225) (as read 76. 111. p. 32) Ἰάσω[ν] ᾿Αχαιός, εὖ. III. 21 (2)? (B.c. 225) ἐπὶ προέδρου ᾿Ιάσονος, 10. (()" Idowv Διονύσιος, Michel 1203" (ii/B.c.) Ἱεροκλῆς ᾿Ιάσονος, αἰ The name is widely spread, e.g. it is found several times amongst the graffiti at Priene, as in Przene 313°: for the bearing of this on Rom 16% cf. Milligan Zhess. p. 183. On the use of ᾿Ιάσων by the Jews as a substitute for ᾿Ιησοῦς, see Deissmann BS p- 315 πη, ἰατρός. This common noun is found in the curious alphabet acrostic P Tebt II. 2789 (early i/a.p.), where ἰατρός is inserted between θωρωκοποίς (‘‘breast-plate maker”) and κλειτοποίς (‘locksmith ’’), The existence of public physicians in Egypt is well illustrated by P Oxy I. 514 (a.D. 173), the report δημοσίου ἰατροῦ, who had been instructed by the strategus ἐφιδεῖν σῶμα νεκρὸν ἀπηρτημένον, ‘‘ to inspect the body of a man who had been found hanged”: cf. 7. 527 (A.D. 325), 16. TIT. 4755 (a.p. 182), and BGU II. 647? (A.D. 130) where C. Minucius Valerianus ἔχων ἰατρεῖον ἐπὶ κωμὴν Καράνιδι is charged (παρηνγέλη) by the strategus to inspect the wound of a certain Mystharion. In P Oxy I. 40? (ii/iii A.D.) we find a man, in view of the fact that he is ἰατρὸς. . δημοσίιεύ]ων ἐπὶ ταρι[χείᾳ, ‘a doctor officially practising mummification” (Edd.), getting exemption from some form of public service, and similarly P Fay 106 (c. A.D. 140) is a petition addressed to the prefect by a physician ὅπως] τέλεον ἀπολύονται τῶν [λειτουρ]γιῶν οἱ τὴν ἰατρικὴν ἐπιστήμην] μεταχειριζόμενοι, ‘that those practising the profession of physician be completely exempted from public services.” _ Physicians were thus apparently State officials (cf. OG/S 104 π.5) and consequently a tax was levied for their maintenance: cf. P Hib I. 102 (B.c. 248), an undertaking to a physician by a military settler to pay by way of ἰατρικόν, ὀλυρ(ῶν) (ἀρτάβας) ι ἢ δραχμὰς τέσσαρας, “© 10 artabae of wheat or 4 drachmae”’: see further Wilcken 97 39

Ἰάσων (Iasōn) — Jason. Ἰάσων, -ονος, ὁ Jason: Act.17:5-7, 9; perhaps the same, Rom.16:21.† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)