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Lydda

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Lydda (lyd'dah). Ezra 2:33. The Greek name for the Hebrew Lud, the present Lydd, now a village, but in ancient times a large town situated in the plain of Sharon, a few miles east of Joppa, on the road to Jerusalem. It was burnt several times by the.Romans, but again rebuilt. Here Peter healed the paralytic Æneas. Acts 9:32.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Lydda'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​l/lydda.html. 1893.
 
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