Idumaea

American  

[id-yoo-mee-uh] / ˌɪd yʊˈmi ə /

Or Idumea

noun

1. Greek name of Edom.

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Other Word Forms

• Idumaean adjective
• Idumean adjective

Example Sentences

Henceforth, the new home of the Edomites is consequently known as Idumaea.

From Project Gutenberg

And they came into Idumaea, and encamped at Bethsura; and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

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But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea, and from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

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Yea, I shall be the first, so life endure, To lead the Muses with me, as I pass To mine own country from the Aonian height; I, Mantua, first will bring thee back the palms Of Idumaea, and raise a marble shrine On thy green plain fast by the water-side, Where Mincius winds more vast in lazy coils, And rims his margent with the tender reed.

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He then subdued Idumaea, and compelled the people of that country to adopt the Jewish religion.

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