Lydia (name)

Lydia/Lidya
Pronunciation LID-ee-ə
Gender Female
Origin
Word/name Greek
Meaning from Lydia

Lydia is a feminine first name of Greek origin (Greek: Λυδία). The name means "woman from Lydia."[1] Lydia of Thyatira, woman and deaconess in the New Testament's Acts of the Apostles was a purple cloth dealer. She was the apostle Paul's first convert in Philippi and thus the first convert to Christianity in Europe.

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People named Lydia

People named Lydia in fiction

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