Bible Names

Lysanias: meaning of the name

Lysanias means “that drives away sorrow.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Lysanias in Hebrew and Greek

Λυσανίας G3078

Lysanías — grief-dispelling; Lysanias, a governor of Abilene

from G3080 (λύσις) and (trouble);

Who named Lysanias in the Bible

Lysanias in Scripture

“Lysanias” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Luke 3:1

    Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,