Lysanías — G3078

Definition

masculine proper noun

grief-dispelling; Lysanias, a governor of Abilene

1. the son of Ptolemy, who from on was governor of Chalcis at the foot of Mount Lebanon, and was put to death at the instance of Cleopatra
2. a tetrarch of Abilene , in the days of John the Baptist and Jesus

Usually translated as

Lysanias

Origin

from G3080 and anía (trouble)

• lýsis (G3080)

Occurrences

Lysanías occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1)

• Luke 3:1 — Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias (Λυσανίου) the tetrarch of Abilene,