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DERBE

(Gk. Dérbē)

A city in southeastern Lyconium, a district of the Roman province of Galatia. Derbe lay on a busy main road that stretched from Iconium and Lystra east to Tarsus in Cilicia. Some archaeologists believe its ruins lie at Kerti Hüyük, 4.8 km. (3 mi.) NW of modern Zosta and 72.4 km. (45 mi.) S of Konia (Iconium). Nothing is known of the city’s early history.

Paul visited Derbe on his first and second missionary journeys (Acts 14:6, 20; 16:1), possibly because it was the home of Gaius, one of his traveling companions (20:4). On Paul’s first journey, after being stoned and left for dead at Lystra (14:14-19) he traveled 48.3 km. (30 mi.) southeast to Derbe, the easternmost point of that journey. He then returned to Lystra and retraced his steps through Iconium, Antioch, and Perga on his way home. Paul revisited Derbe on his second journey (16:1). We have no record of any specific events that transpired there.

Dale Ellenburg






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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