Lydia vs Pactolus - What's the difference?
lydia | pactolus |
A historic region of SW Asia Minor/Persia.
A woman converted by Paul; presumably named for ancestry or residence in Lydia.
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A river, formerly an important feature of ancient Lydia and said to contain gold; now rising and emptying in modern Turkey.
As proper nouns the difference between lydia and pactolus
is that lydia is a historic region of SW Asia Minor/Persia while Pactolus is a river, formerly an important feature of ancient Lydia and said to contain gold; now rising and emptying in modern Turkey.lydia
English
Alternative forms
* LidiaProper noun
(en proper noun)- And a certain woman named Lydia , a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
- Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
- The first three, Macklin, Lydia , and Randall, were the special ones. Even those names, we thought, showed greater imagination, greater involvement on our parents' part, than ours did: Nina, Mary, Sarah.