Tetrarch of Abilene (Luke 3:1), on the eastern slope of Anti-Lebanon, near the city of Damascus.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Lysanias
Name meaning: that drives away sorrow (Hitchcock)
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Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(that drives away sorrow), mentioned by St. Luke in one of his chronological passages, ch. (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.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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