Lystra

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Lystra is a settlement named in 6 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Tel Lystra (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Identification	Confidence	Coordinates
Tel Lystra	high (100%)	37.602° N, 32.338° E

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:they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding region,
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:In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
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,They preached the gospel to that city and made many disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,
Acts 16:1
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: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.
Acts 16:2
Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.The brothers in Lystra and Iconium spoke well of him.

2 Timothy 3:11
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.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.

Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.