Strong G2449Ἰουδαία

Judea

Transliteration
Ioudaia
Pronunciation
ee-oo-dah'-yah
Morphology
Proper Name (Feminine) of a Location

Definition

Feminine of G2453 (with G1093 implied); the Judaean land (that is judaea) a region of Palestine: - Juda.

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

  1. Matthew 2:1
    Now 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,
  2. Matthew 2:5
    And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
  3. Matthew 2:22
    But 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:
  4. Matthew 3:1
    In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
  5. Matthew 3:5
    Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,
  6. Matthew 4:25
    And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.
  7. Matthew 19:1
    And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
  8. Matthew 24:16
    Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
  9. Mark 1:5
    And 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.
  10. Mark 3:7
    But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,
  11. Mark 10:1
    And 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.
  12. Mark 13:14
    But 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:
  13. Luke 1:5
    There 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.
  14. Luke 1:65
    And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judea.
  15. Luke 2:4
    And 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:)
  16. Luke 3:1
    Now 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,
  17. Luke 5:17
    And 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.
  18. Luke 6:17
    And 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;
  19. Luke 7:17
    And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.
  20. Luke 21:21
    Then 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:)]