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Lucius in Smiths Bible Dictionary

1. A kinsman or fellow tribesman of St. Paul, Ro 16:21 by whom he is said by tradition to have been ordained bishop of the church of Cenchreae. He is thought by some to be the same with Lucius of Cyrene. 2. Lucius of Cyrene is first mentioned in the New Testament in company with Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Manaen and Saul, who are describe...

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Lud in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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Lysias in Naves Topical Bible

-Chief captain of Roman troops in Jerusalem Ac 24:7,22 -See CLAUDIUS LYSIAS...

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Lot in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(veil or covering), the son of Haran, and therefore the nephew of Abraham. Ge 11:27,31 (B.C. before 1926-1898.) His sisters were Milcah the wife of Nahor, and Iscah, by some identified with Sarah. haran died before the emigration of Terah and his family from Ur of the Chaldees, ver. 28, and Lot was therefore born there. He removed with the res...

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Lucas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lu'-kas, loo'-kas. In Philem 1:24 the King James Version, for "Luke" (Revised Version)....

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Lucius in Easton's Bible Dictionary

of Cyrene, a Christian teacher at Antioch (Acts 13:1), and Paul's kinsman (Rom. 16:21). His name is Latin, but his birthplace seems to indicate that he was one of the Jews of Cyrene, in North Africa....

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Lucas in Naves Topical Bible

-Fellow-laborer of Paul Phm 1:24 -See LUKE...

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Lucius in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Paul's kinsman or fellow tribesman (Romans 16:21). Tradition makes him consecrated Bishop of Cenchreae by Paul (Apost. Const. 7:46)....

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Luke in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

look, luk. 1. Name: The name Luke (Loukas) is apparently an abbreviation for Loukanos. Old Latin manuscripts frequently have the words CATA LUCANUM as the title of the Third Gospel. (But the form Loukios, is also found in inscriptions synonymous with Loukas; compare Ramsay, The Expositor, December, 1912.) It was a common fashion in the koine to...

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Lot in Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the divine will (Prov. 16:33), and in serious cases of doubt (Esther 3:7). Thus the lot was used at the division of the la...

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