Derbe
Derbe, a city in Lycaonia, was visited by Paul during his missionary journeys.
The name Derbe means “a sting”
PlaceNew Testament1 book5 verses
Summary
Location
- Identified as
- Kerti Hüyük
- Certainty
- Likely (86% of scholarship) · 2 other possible locations
- Coordinates
- 37.349° N, 33.361° E
Events
Dates are approximate
Glossary entries
Alternative names
Mentions
Includes 1 verse that refer to Derbe without naming it.
- …they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
- But after the disciples had gathered around him, he got up and went back into the city. And the next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.
- Acts 14:21Referred to, not namedThey preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
- Paul 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.
- Paul was accompanied by Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, Gaius from Derbe, Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from the province of Asia.