American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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Lunatic

A word formed from the Latin luna, the moon, and thus corresponding to the original Greek word and to the English "moonstruck;" applied to a class of persons mentally and often ...

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Lust

Originally meant any longing desire, however innocent, De 12:15 14:26. But, in tacit acknowledgment of the depravity of man’s passions, general usage soon attached the idea of g...

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Luz

The ancient name of a part at least of Bethel, Ge 28:19Joh 16:2 18:13; afterwards given to a smaller place founded by a refugee from Bethel, Jud 1:26. See Bethel, Jud 1:26. SeeB...

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Lycaonia

A small province of Asia Minor, bounded north by Galatia, east by Cappadocia, south by Isauria and Cilicia, and west by Phrygia. It appears to have been within the limits of Phr...

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Lycia

A province in the southwest of Asia Minor bounded west by Caria, east by Pamphylia, north by Phrygia and Pisidia, and south by the Mediterranean. The country is somewhat mountai...

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Lydda

In Hebrew Lud or Lod, 1Ch 8:12; Ezr 2:33, and by the Greeks called Diospolis, was a city nine miles east of Joppa, on the way to Jerusalem. Here Peter healed Aeneas, Ac 9:33,34....

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Lydia

A woman of Thyatira, residing at Philippi in Macedonia, and dealing in purple cloths. She was not a Jewess by birth, but had become a proselyte to Judaism and "worshipped God." ...

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Lysanias

SeeABILENE.

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Lysias

Or Claudius Lysias, commander of the Roman guard at Jerusalem during Paul’s last visit there. In the honorable discharge of his duty, he repeatedly saved Paul from the malice of...

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Lystra

A city of Lycaonia, near Derbe and Iconium, and the native place of Timothy. Paul and Barnabas preached the gospel here; and having healed a cripple, were almost worshipped. Soo...