Strong G2449Ἰουδαία
Judea
- Transliteration
- Ioudaia
- Pronunciation
- ee-oo-dah'-yah
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Feminine) of a Location
Definition
Meaning of the name
Judea, Judean, "land of the Judahites"
Detailed definition
§ Judea, Judean, "land of the Judahites"
Judea, the southern party of the country, below Samaria, Mt. 2:1, 5, 22; 3:1; metonymy the inhabitants of Judea
In the biblical story
Judea
The southern region of Israel, centered around Jerusalem
Judea, the southern region of Israel, was the center of Jewish life and culture in biblical times, with Jerusalem as its capital.
In the Bible
Strong G2449 appears in 43 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- judea41
- jewry2
First verses
- Matthew 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
- Matthew 2:5And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
- Matthew 2:22But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:
- Matthew 3:1In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
- Matthew 3:5Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,
- Matthew 4:25And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.
- Matthew 19:1And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
- Matthew 24:16Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
- Mark 1:5And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.
- Mark 3:7But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,
- Mark 10:1And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
- Mark 13:14But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains:
- Luke 1:5There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
- Luke 1:65And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea.
- Luke 2:4And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
- Luke 3:1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
- Luke 5:17And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
- Luke 6:17And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
- Luke 7:17And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.
- Luke 21:21Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
Ἰουδαῖος, ὁ,
a Jewish man: Ἰουδαία, a Jewish woman; ἡ Ἰουδαία (i.e. γῆ) “Judaea”: —Ἰουδα-ϊκός, ή, όν, “Jewish”, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.8.11, etc.)] adverb -κῶς [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 6.1.3, NT.Gal.2.14, “Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 1.1.7.4:)]
a Jewish man: Ἰουδαία, a Jewish woman; ἡ Ἰουδαία (i.e. γῆ) “Judaea”: —Ἰουδα-ϊκός, ή, όν, “Jewish”, [LXX (LXX.2Mac.8.11, etc.)] adverb -κῶς [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 6.1.3, NT.Gal.2.14, “Codex Justinianus [4th-6th c.AD]” 1.1.7.4:)]