Bible History
Bible History
Choose a Category

Lystra

Lystra in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

lis'-tra: The forms Lustran, and Lustrois, occur. Such variation in the gender of Anatolian city-names is common (see Harnack, Apostelgeschichte, 86; Ramsay, Paul the Traveler, 128). Lystra was visited by Paul 4 times (Acts 14:6,21; 16:1; 18:23--the last according to the "South Galatian" theory), and is mentioned in 2 Tim 3:10 f as one of the...

Read More

Lystra Scripture - Acts 14:6

They were ware of [it], and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:...

Read More

Lystra in Naves Topical Bible

One of two cities of Lycaonia, to which Paul and Barnabas fled from persecutions in Iconium Ac 14:6-23; 2Ti 3:11 -Congregation of, elders ordained for, by Paul and Barnabas Ac 14:23 -Timothy a resident of Ac 16:1-4...

Read More

Lystra Scripture - Acts 14:21

And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and [to] Iconium, and Antioch,...

Read More

Lystra in Smiths Bible Dictionary

This place has two points of interest in connection respectively with St. Paul's first and second missionary Journeys: (1) as the place where divine honors were offered to him, and where he was presently stoned, Ac 14:1 ... (2) as the home of his chosen companion and fellow missionary Timotheus. Ac 16:1 Lystra was in the eastern part of the gr...

Read More

Lystra Scripture - Acts 14:8

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:...

Read More

Lystra Scripture - Acts 16:2

Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium....

Read More

Lystra in Hitchcock's Bible Names

that dissolves or disperses...

Read More

Lystra in Easton's Bible Dictionary

a town of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, in a wild district and among a rude population. Here Paul preached the gospel after he had been driven by persecution from Iconium (Acts 14:2- 7). Here also he healed a lame man (8), and thus so impressed the ignorant and superstitious people that they took him for Mercury, because he was the "chief speak...

Read More

Lystra in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

(See Acts 14; Acts 16.) A town of Lycaonia, Timothy's birthplace. He doubtless heard of Paul's miraculous healing of the cripple, followed by the people's and priests' offer of sacrifices to Paul as Mercury and to Barnabas as Jupiter before the city (its tutelary god whose statue stood there), which worship the apostles, rending their clothes ...

Read More

61 Bible Translations

Popular Articles

Explore the Bible Like Never Before!

Bible History Online

Bible Study Tools

Top Tags