Derbe
dur'-be (Derbe, Acts 14:20,21; 16:1; Derbaios, 20:4;
Derbetes, Strabo, Cicero): A city in the extreme Southeast
corner of the Lycaonian plain is mentioned twice as having
been visited by Paul (on his first and second missionary
journeys respectively), and it may now be regarded as highly
probable that he passed through it on his third journey ...
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(A city in the region of Lycaonia)
-Paul flees to
Ac 14:6,20
-Visited by Paul and Silas
Ac 16:1
-Gaius born in
Ac 20:4...
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Ac 14:20,21; 16:1; 20:4 The exact position of this town has
not yet been ascertained, but its general situation is
undoubted. It was in the eastern part of the great upland
plain of Lycaonia, which stretched from Iconium eastward along
the north side of the chain of Taurus. (Rev. L. H. Adams, a
missionary, identifies it with the modern Divle, ...
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a small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of
Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed
through Derbe
on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second
missionary
journey (Acts 16:1), and probably also on his third
journey
(18:23; 19:1). On his first journey (14:20, 21) he
came to Derbe
from the other side; i.e., from I...
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Near Lystra, E. of the upland plain of Lycaonia, stretching
eastwards along the N. of the Taurus range. Probably near the
pass ("the Cilician gates") from the plain of Cilicia up to
the table land of the interior. Paul fled there from Iconium
and Lystra (Acts 14:6; Acts 14:20-21; Acts 16:1). In
enumerating places (2 Timothy 3:11) he mentions L...
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And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of
the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of
Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus....
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Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain
disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain
woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father [was]
a Greek:...
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They were ware of [it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities
of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:...
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Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up,
and came into the city: and the next day he departed with
Barnabas to Derbe....
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