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Lydia is a Biblical given name: Lydia of Thyatira, businesswoman in the city of Thyatira in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles.She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.
Ludim (Hebrew: לודים, romanized: Lūḏîm) is the Hebrew term for a people mentioned in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. In the Biblical Table of Nations Genesis 10:13 they were descended from Mizraim. The biblical scholar Victor P. Hamilton believes that the available evidence "suggests" that the Ludim are the Lydians. [1]
The name, "Lydia", meaning "the Lydian woman", by which she was known indicates that she was from Lydia in Asia Minor. Though she is commonly known as "St. Lydia" or even more simply "The Woman of Purple," Lydia is given other titles: "of Thyatira," "Purpuraria," and "of Philippi ('Philippisia' in Greek)."
Lud (Hebrew: לוּד Lūḏ) was a son of Shem and grandson of Noah, according to Genesis 10 (the "Table of Nations"). The descendants of Lud are usually, following Josephus, connected with various Anatolian peoples, particularly Lydia (Assyrian Luddu) and their predecessors, the Luwians; cf. Herodotus' assertion (Histories i.
The equivalent Hebrew name is Zibiah, also spelled Tsibiah, a name carried by the mother of King Joash of Judah. [9] Some explain the use of a Greek variant of Tabitha's Syriac Aramaic name by the fact that she was living in a port city, where many inhabitants and visitors would primarily communicate in Greek. [ 9 ]
It is the Greek, Italian, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish transcription of the name Lydia. [1] [2] People. Notable people with the name include:
The Pactolus river, from which Lydia obtained electrum, a combination of silver and gold. In Greek myth, Lydia had also adopted the double-axe symbol, that also appears in the Mycenaean civilization, the labrys. [57] Omphale, daughter of the river Iardanos, was a ruler of Lydia, whom Heracles was required to serve for a time.
The Hebrew plural "Ludim" certainly seems to refer to Lydians from Lydia ("Lud") in some places. But "Ludim" also is the spelling given for the Mizraimite (Egyptian) tribe in Genesis 10, whereas Shem's son appears only as "Lud".