Malchus
6. Of TYRE. Malchus was the Hellenized form of the original Syriac name of the philosopher Porphyry. [PORPHYRIUS.] The Syriac name Malchus signifies "king;" and the Greek Porphyrius, Πορφύριος, was perhaps designed to be its equivalent.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.