Idumaea
noun
Greek name of Edom.
Idumean
-
a word derived from
Idumaea.
Example Sentences
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Herod was of desert stock, an Idumean, traditionally pagan in the Jewish world.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was by birth an Idumean and one of the chief men of that nation on account of his ancestry and riches and other authority that belonged to him.
From The Makers and Teachers of Judaism by Charles Foster Kent
He gives an elaborate account of the rise of the Idumean family of Antipater, and hence to the end of the book the history passes into a biography of Herod.
From Josephus by Norman Bentwich
The Asmonean princes were of another line, and when our Lord came the sceptre was in the hands of Herod, an Idumean Or Edomite.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson
Nay, no king of mine is that Idumean fox whose brother's wife doth defile his bed.
From The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock
