Category:Lydia

Lydia is a kingdom in the western part of Anatolia, which is modern day Turkey. Phrygia at one point in 695 B.C. came to be subject to Lydia. Phrygia was the kingdom to the east of Lydia. Ionia was to the west of Lydia.

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Lydia - (1.) Ezekiel 30:5 (Heb. Lud ), a province in the west of Asia Minor, which derived its name from the fourth son of Shem (Genesis 10:22). It was bounded on the east by the greater Phrygia, and on the west by Ionia and the Aegean Sea. (2.) A woman of Thyatira, a "seller of purple," who dwelt in Philippi (Acts 16:14, Acts 16:15). She was not a Jewess but a proselyte. The Lord opened her heart as she heard the Gospel from the lips of Paul (Acts 16:13). She thus became the first in Europe who embraced Christianity. She was a person apparently of considerable wealth, for she could afford to give a home to Paul and his companions. (See THYATIRA.)