Achaia
					    	: a Roman province located in Greece along the south coast of the Gulf of Corinth
 Macedonia
					    	: a Roman province north of Greece which included 10 Roman colonies (IBD),citizens of the province of Macedonia
 Silas
					    	: a man who went with Peter and Paul on separate missionary journeys
 Silvanus
					    	: a man who was a leader in the Jerusalem church chosen to accompany Paul
 Thessalonian
					    	: inhabitant(s) of Thessalonica
 Timothy
					    	: a young man of Lystra who travelled with Paul and to whom two epistles were addressed