Personal name meaning, comforter. Greek form of Menahem (Comforter); the name of a prophet and teacher in the early church at Antioch (Acts 13:1). Manaen is described as the syntrophos of Herod the tetrarch (Herod Antipas, reigned 4 B.C. to A.D. 37). The term literally means "one who eats with". The meanings "member of court" and "childhood companion" are both possible for Acts 13:1. A less likely alternative is the early Greek translation’s use of syntrophoi for fellow Israelites to mean, kin (1 Kings 12:24).