ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ, ἰουδαιος
IOUDAIOS, ioudaios
Sounds Like: ee-oo-DAH-yoss
Translations: Jewish, a Jew, a Judean, a Judean man
From the root: ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun
Explanation: This word refers to someone who is Jewish, either by ethnicity or religion, or a resident of Judea. It can be used as an adjective to describe something as 'Jewish' or as a noun to refer to 'a Jew' or 'a Judean'. In the New Testament, it often distinguishes between those who follow Jewish law and customs and those who do not.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2453 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:7
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 10 — 11:265
- Book 11 — 6:207
- Book 13 — 2:54
- Book 14 — 3:40, 10:192
- Book 17 — 12:324
- Book 18 — 3:81
- Book 20 — 2:34, 2:38, 2:43, 12:262
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Esther — 1:1, 2:5, 3:4, 9:29
- 1 Maccabees — 2:23
- 2 Maccabees — 9:17
- 3 Maccabees — 1:3, 3:29
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:28
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:28
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- John — 4:9, 18:35
- Acts — 18:24, 19:34, 21:39, 22:3
- Romans — 2:17, 2:28, 2:29
- 1 Corinthians — 9:20
- Galatians — 2:14, 3:28
- Colossians — 3:11
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΑ — Judaea, Judea, a Judean woman, Jewish (feminine)
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΚΟΝ — Jewish, Judaic, a Jewish thing, the Jewish (thing)
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΚΟΥ — Jewish, Judean, a Jewish, a Judean, (of) Jewish, (of) Judean
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΙ — Jews, the Jews
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΙΣ — to Jews, for Jews, with Jews, among Jews
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΝ — Jew, a Jew, Jewish
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΥΣ — Jews, the Jews
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΣΤΙ — in Jewish, in the Jewish language, in Hebrew
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΩ — (to) a Jew, (to) the Jew
- ἸΟΥΔΑΙΩΝ — of Jews, of the Jews
- ἸΟΥΔΕΙΝ — Jehudi
- ΤΟΥΣἸΟΥΔΑΙΟΥΣ — the Jews, the Judeans
- ΤΩΝἸΟΥΔΑΙΩΝ — of the Jews, of the Judeans
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