This is the name of the place Lystra: A city in Lycaonia; Paul and Barnabas preached there.
Definition
λύστρα, -ας, ἡ
and (in Acts 14:8; 16:2, 2Ti, l.with) -ων, τά (cf. Λύδδα),
Lystra, a city of Lycaonia: Acts 14:6, 8; 14:21; 16:1-2, 2 Timothy 3:11.
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- Acts 14:6Λύστραν · of Lystra…they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
- Acts 14:8Λύστροις · LystraIn Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
- Acts 14:21Λύστραν · LystraThey preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- Acts 16:1Λύστραν · LystraPaul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek father.
- Acts 16:2Λύστροις · LystraThe brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
- 2 Timothy 3:11Λύστροις · Lystra…my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.