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Derbe

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

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Der´be, a small town of Lycaonia, in Asia Minor, at the foot of the Taurian mountains, 60 miles south by east from Iconium, and 18 miles east of Lystra. It was the birthplace of Gaius, the friend and fellow-traveler of Paul (); and it was to this place that Paul and Barnabas fled when expelled from Iconium, A.D. 41 ().

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Derbe'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​d/derbe.html.
 
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