Lystra · Lystra

What it means

Lystra (Λύστρα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Lystra”.

A city of Lycaonia, the hometown of Timothy.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Acts×5
• 2 Timothy×1

• Acts 14:6

  they learned of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the surrounding region;

• Acts 14:8

  And in Lystra a certain man was sitting, without strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked.

• Acts 14:21

  And after announcing the good news in that city and making disciples of many, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch,

• Acts 16:1

  And he arrived also at Derbe and at Lystra. And look, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman, but of a Greek father.

• Acts 16:2

  He was well attested by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium.

• 2 Timothy 3:11

  persecutions, sufferings, such as happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra, what persecutions I endured; and the Lord rescued me from all of them.