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 Kent, Charles Foster
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 Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Antipater, a noble Idumean, was the chief minister of the feeble Hyrcanus.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
The Idumean stallion, dropping his ears and stretching his neck, shot on like an arrow past the motionless cypresses and the white villas hidden among them.
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah
