Phebe

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• OriginGreek
• Gender♀ Female
• MeaningVariant of Phoebe. Bright, radiant

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• Phoebe (Greek Titan goddess) — One of the original twelve Titans of Greek mythology, daughter of Uranus and Gaia, goddess of the bright intellect and prophetic radiance; presided over the oracle at Delphi before Apollo; through her daughter Leto she was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis, making her the divine ancestral source of celestial light in the Greek pantheon.
• Phebe (As You Like It) — Fictional character in Shakespeare's As You Like It (c. 1599), a proud shepherdess in the Forest of Arden who disdains the shepherd Silvius's devotion but falls for the disguised Rosalind; her name is the older English spelling of Phoebe and one of Shakespeare's most spirited minor female characters — vain, passionate, and ultimately charmed into accepting happiness.
• Phoebe (New Testament) — A woman commended by the apostle Paul in Romans 16:1–2 as a 'servant' (diakonos, often translated 'deacon') of the church at Cenchreae near Corinth, described as a 'patron of many'; the earliest named female church official in the New Testament, her brief mention has been central to two thousand years of Christian debate about women's leadership and ordination.
• Phoebe (moon of Saturn) — An irregular moon of Saturn, discovered photographically in 1898 by William Henry Pickering — the first moon discovered by photography — and named after the Titan goddess; it has a retrograde orbit, suggesting it was captured from the outer solar system; the Cassini spacecraft flew past it in 2004, revealing a dark, cratered body rich in primitive material.