Bible Names

Cyrene: meaning of the name

Cyrene means “a wall; coldness; the floor.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Cyrene in Hebrew and Greek

Κυρήνη G2957

Kyrḗnē — Cyrene, a region of Africa

of uncertain derivation;

Places named Cyrene

Cyrene in Scripture

“Cyrene” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Matthew 27:32

    And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

  • Acts 2:10

    Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

  • Acts 11:20

    And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

  • Acts 13:1

    Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.