Judean

or Ju·dae·an

[ joo-dee-uhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of Judean¹

First recorded in 1645–55; Jude(a) + -an

Hasmonean warrior-priests picked off formerly Seleucid territories and incorporated them into a growing Judean kingdom.

These Hellenized Jews, who frequently had their origins in the upper reaches of Judean society, came to be known as the Sadducees.

History records internal Jewish strife to match and challenge the violence of the Judean war against the Seleucids.

The Kidron Valley wends its way from the eastern side of the Old City, through the Judean Desert, to the Dead Sea.

The sick king, looking longingly towards the Temple, could see the lower steps still gleaming in the bright Judean sunshine.

They read Greek mythology side by side with Judean mythology and noted similarities.

Between lay humbled towns, wholly abandoned to the bats and to the ignoble wild life of the Judean wilderness.

Laodice saw in the gesture and phrase the refinement of her father, Costobarus, of the gentlest Judean blood.

An angel and a dream, then, it will be observed, were the instrumentalities used to save the young Judean Savior from massacre.

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