Idumaea
noun
Greek name of Edom.
Idumaean
-
a word derived from
Idumaea.
Example Sentences
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These were the Sadducaean notables who long had headed the struggle against the Idumaean interlopers.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
But in the year following he collected an army of sixty thousand chosen footmen and five thousand horsemen to renew the attack, and marched to the Idumaean border.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
The high priesthood was a mere forfeit in the deals of Idumaean tetrarchs and Roman governors.
From John the Baptist by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
Ishmael, you say, is a usurper, yet to believe an Idumaean sooner than Ishmael is to sting like an adder.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
Such a stop occurred in the answer just given, at the end of the allusion to the Egyptian and Idumaean.
From Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ by Lewis Wallace
