Judea Definition

jo͝odēə
noun

Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.

1611 In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, king Ptolemeus' master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt — 2 Maccabees 1:10 KJV.
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Synonyms:
  • judaea

Origin of Judea

  • From Latin Iudaea, from Ancient Greek Ἰουδαία (Ioudaia), from Biblical Hebrew יהודה.

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Judea Sentence Examples

  • He returned to Judea and governed it to the great satisfaction of the Jews.

  • His strongest denunciation is directed against the religious practices of the time in Judea - the worship of the Canaanite local deities (the Baals), the Phoenician Tammuz, and the sun and other Babylonian and Assyrian gods (vi., viii., xvi., xxiii.); he maintained vigorously the prophetic struggle for the sole worship of Yahweh.

  • To this he added that held by Lysanias; and Agrippa returned very soon into Judea to take possession of his new kingdom.

  • The emperor, in acknowledgment, gave him the government of Judea, while the kingdom of Chalcis in Lebanon was at his request given to his brother Herod.

  • The variation may have been one of local use, either in Judea or in Babylonia; or the author may have had some fanciful reason for the transposition, such as, for example, that Pe following Samech (mo) might suggest the word nmo, " Wail ye!

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