Judean

or Ju·dae·an

[ joo-dee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to Judea.

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Judea.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Judean¹

First recorded in 1645–55; Jude(a) + -an

Example Sentences

Hasmonean warrior-priests picked off formerly Seleucid territories and incorporated them into a growing Judean kingdom.

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These Hellenized Jews, who frequently had their origins in the upper reaches of Judean society, came to be known as the Sadducees.

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History records internal Jewish strife to match and challenge the violence of the Judean war against the Seleucids.

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The Kidron Valley wends its way from the eastern side of the Old City, through the Judean Desert, to the Dead Sea.

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The sick king, looking longingly towards the Temple, could see the lower steps still gleaming in the bright Judean sunshine.

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They read Greek mythology side by side with Judean mythology and noted similarities.

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Between lay humbled towns, wholly abandoned to the bats and to the ignoble wild life of the Judean wilderness.

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Laodice saw in the gesture and phrase the refinement of her father, Costobarus, of the gentlest Judean blood.

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An angel and a dream, then, it will be observed, were the instrumentalities used to save the young Judean Savior from massacre.

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