Idumaea
noun
Greek name of Edom.
Idumea
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a variation of
Idumaea.
Example Sentences
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Unless you’re familiar with Seleucids, the Hasmonean dynasty, Essenes, Idumea, Antipater and the multiple kings named Antiochus, you may find the first couple of chapters tough-going.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2014
Simon son of Gioras, having wasted all the country towards Idumea, began to threaten Jerusalem.
From For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Next year Lysias gathered another army, that he might subdue the Israelites, and came into Idumea, and pitched tents at Bethsura.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
Herod did not lie idle, but seized Idumea and held it with two thousand footmen and four hundred horsemen.
From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Charles Foster Kent
The Bollandists, on the other hand, assert that he was the Apostle to Arabia and Idumea, while the Greek Menology relates that he was shot to death with arrows by the infidels in Armenia.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
