Toponym Derbe in the world's Bibles
Meaning of the name: a sting. Related names are: Lystra, Timotheus, Lycaonia . The translations of Derbe in 73 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Derbe in Spanish to ᓄᓇᓕᖕᓄᓪᓗ in Inuktitut!
Wear it!They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about: (ACT 14:6)
Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. (ACT 14:20)
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: (ACT 16:1)
And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. (ACT 20:4)