Places of the Bible
Derbe
City
What happened here
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Mission to Lystra and Derbe · 46 AD
- Timothy Joins Paul and Silas · 47 AD
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Derbe, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- First Missionary Journey · 45 AD · 2 verses
- Second Missionary Journey · 46 AD · 1 verse
- Third Missionary Journey · 50 AD · 1 verse
- Mission to Macedonia and Greece · 54 AD · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A small town on the eastern part of the upland plain of Lycaonia, about 20 miles from Lystra. Paul passed through Derbe on his route from Cilicia to Iconium, on his second missionary journey (Acts 16:1), and probably also on his third journey (18:23; 19:1). On his first journey (14:20, 21) he came to Derbe from the other side; i.e., from Iconium. It was the native place of Gaius, one of Paul’s companions (20:4). He did not here suffer persecution (2 Tim. 3:11).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 4 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.