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Lysanias

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Lysa'nias. (that drives away sorrow). Mentioned by St. Luke, in one of his chronological passages, Luke 3:1, as being tetrarch of Abilene (that is, the district round Abila) in the thirteenth year of Tiberius, (A.D. 26), at the time when Herod Antipas was tetrarch of Galilee and Herod Philip was tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis.

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Smith, William, Dr. Entry for 'Lysanias'. Smith's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​sbd/​l/lysanias.html. 1901.
 
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