Biblical Proper Names: Biographies

A Dictionary of the Bible The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Further reading

Lydia

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Lydia Paul's first convert in Europe; she was a gentile attracted to Judaism; possibly a freedwoman and a widow; she sold purple-dyed cloth, and was sufficiently well-off to give Paul and Silas hospitality at Philippi (Acts 16: 15, 40).

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Lydia

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Lydia , in the New Testament, Christian convert at whose house in Philippi Paul stayed. She was from Thyatira.

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