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Phoebe is a Greek name derived from phoibos, meaning bright or radiant, and was used as an epithet associated with light and the moon. In Greek mythology it was borne by a Titaness identified with the moon and with the oracle at Delphi, and the name was later applied to the moon goddess Artemis. The name appears in the New Testament as that of a deaconess praised by Paul in his letter to the Romans, which helped establish it in Christian use. Phebe is an older English spelling, and the masculine cognate Phoebus was a standard epithet of the sun god Apollo.