🔼The name Claudius: Summary
- Meaning
- Limp, Enclosure
- Etymology
- From the verb claudo, to shut in or be shut in.
🔼The name Claudius in the Bible
There are two men named Claudius in the Bible:
- The fifth Roman emperor, who banned all Jews from Rome (Acts 11:28, 18:2).
- A Roman commander, fully named Κλαυδιος Λυσιας (Claudius Lysias), who saved the apostle Paul from assassination by Jews (Acts 23:26).
🔼Etymology of the name Claudius
The name Claudius is the masculine version of the feminine Claudia. Both come from either the verb claudico or the verb claudo:
Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary
claudico
The verb claudico means to be limp or waver, or to be in want or deficient.
claudo
There are two verbs claudo. One means the same as claudico and the other means to shut or close (hence our words clause and conclusion).