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Lydda

By the Greeks called Diospolis. It lay in the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea, four or five leagues to the east of Joppa. Lydda is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “Lydia, a standing pool.” This unified study connects 7 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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  • Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • Historical Reference: concordance
  • Historical Reference: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Study overview

Study at a glance

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3850, G3069
Hebrew
לֹד · Lôd
Greek
Λύδδα · Ludda
Name meaning
Lydia, a standing pool According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Λύδδα

G3069
Transliteration
Ludda
Language
Greek
Part of speech
N:N-F-L
Indexed occurrences
3

Glosses

Lydda

Lexicon definition

λύδδα, -ας (Act.9:38, -ης Rec.), ἡ and λύδδα, -ων, τά (Act.9:32, 35; -αν, Rec.), (Heb. לֹד), Lydda (modern Ludd): Ac, ll. with† (AS)

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Lydda

Lydia, a standing pool

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

LYDDA

by the Greeks called Diospolis. It lay in the way from Jerusalem to Cæsarea, four or five leagues to the east of Joppa. Lydda belonged to the tribe of Ephraim. It seems to have been inhabited by the Benjamites, at the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, Neh. xi, 35. St. Peter coming to Lydda, cured a sick man of the palsy named Eneas, Acts ix, 33, 34.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Lydda

Indexed occurrences: 3

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All Scripture references8 references

2 Kings 1

2 Kings 4:42

1 Chronicles 1

1 Chronicles 8:12

Ezra 1

Ezra 2:33

Nehemiah 2

Nehemiah 7:37Nehemiah 11:35

Acts 3

Acts 9:32Acts 9:35Acts 9:38

Topical Bible

Nave's Topical Bible

LYDDA

Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for LYDDA.

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Lydda

Meaning:
Lydia, a standing pool

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Topic

LYDDA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for LYDDA.

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Dictionary

Hadid

Pointed, a place in the tribe of Benjamin near Lydda, or Lod, and Ono (Ezra 2:33; Neh. 7:37). It is identified with the modern el-Haditheh, 3 miles east of Lydda.

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Dictionary

Lydda

Lydia, a standing pool

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Dictionary

Shalisha, Land of

Probably the district of Baal-shalisha (2 Kings 4:42), lying about 12 miles north of Lydda (1 Sam. 9:4).

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