Bible Names

Lystra: meaning of the name

Lystra means “that dissolves or disperses.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Lystra in Hebrew and Greek

Λύστρα G3082

Lýstra — Lystra, a place in Asia Minor

of uncertain origin;

Places named Lystra

Lystra in Scripture

“Lystra” appears in 6 verses of the King James Version.

  • 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:

  • 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:

  • 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,

  • 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:

  • Acts 16:2

    Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

  • 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.