Dictionaries :: Lysanias

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Lysanias:

tetrarch of Abilene (Luk 3:1), on the eastern slope of Anti-Lebanon, near the city of Damascus.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Lysanias:

that drives away sorrow

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Lysanias:

li-sa'-ni-as (Lusanias): Mentioned in Lu 3:1 as tetrarch of Abilene in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, and thus fixing the date of the preaching of John the Baptist in the wilderness at about 26 or 28 AD. A Lysanias is mentioned by Josephus as having ruled over Chalcis and Abilene, and as having been slain by Mark Antony at the instigation of Cleopatra. As this happened about 36 BC, Luke has been charged with inaccuracy. Inscriptions, however, corroborate the view that the Lysanias of Luke was probably a descendant of the Lysanias mentioned by Josephus (compare Schurer, H J the Priestly Code (P), div I, volume II, App. 1, p. 338).

Written by C. M. Kerr

Nave's Topical Bible

Lysanias: A Tetrarch

Luk 3:1

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Lysanias:

(that drives away sorrow) mentioned by St. Luke in one of his chronological passages (Luke 3:1) as being Tetrarch of Abilene (i.e. 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 tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis.