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Lystra

Lystra, a city in Lycaonia where Paul and Barnabas preached and Paul healed a lame man.

The name Lystra means “that dissolves or disperses”

PlaceNew Testament2 books7 verses

Summary

A location first mentioned at Acts 14:6; only referred to as Lystra (Λύστρα).

Location

Identified as
Tel Lystra
Certainty
Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates
37.602° N, 32.338° E
Lystra
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Events

Dates are approximate

Glossary entries

Lystra

Alternative names

Mentions

Includes 1 verse that refer to Lystra without naming it.

  1. Acts 14:6
    …they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
  2. Acts 14:8
    In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
  3. Acts 14:21
    They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
  4. Acts 16:1
    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.
  5. Acts 16:2
    The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.
  6. Acts 16:3Referred to, not named
    Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.
  7. 2 Timothy 3:11
    …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.