Dict: smith - LYSIAS

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LYSIAS - L>@ - (dissolving), a nobleman of the blood-royal, 1Macc kjv@3:32; 2Macc 11:1, who was entrusted he Antiochus Epiphanes (cir. B.C. 166) with the government of southern Syria and the guardianship of his son Antiochus Eupator. 1Macc kjv@3:32; 2Macc. 10:11. After the death of Antiochus Epiphanes, B.C. 184, Lysias assumed the government as guardian of his son, who was pet a child. 1Macc kjv@6:17. In B.C. 164 he, together with his ward, fell into the hands of Demetrius Soter, who put them both to death. 1Macc kjv@7:2-4; 2Macc 14:2.

LYSIAS CLAUDIUS - L>@ - a chief captain of the band, that is, tribune of the Roman cohort who rescued St. Paul from the hands of the infuriated mob at Jerusalem, and sent him under a guard to Felix, the governor or proconsul of Caesarea. kjv@Acts:21:31) seq.; kjv@Acts:23:26 kjv@Acts:24:7 (A.D. 55.)