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Ἰουδαῖος, αία, αῖον Adj Jewish

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from 2448 (in the sense of 2455 as a country); Judaean, i.e. belonging to Jehudah

KJV Usage: Jew(-ess), of Judaea

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | -α, -ον

93.487 · (α, ον) · Names of Persons and Places · Places

Judean (derivative of Ἰουδαία ‘Judea,’ 93.486) pertaining to Judea

JHN 3:22 · ACT 2:14 · ACT 10:28 · ACT 22:3

noun-name, m. | -ου

93.172 · (ου m) · Names of Persons and Places · Persons

a Jew (derivative of Ἰούδας[a] ‘Judah,’ 93.173, and Ἰούδας[c] ‘Judah,’ 93.488) the ethnic name of a person who belongs to the Jewish nation In NT usage the reference of the term οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι may be either the Jewish people as such, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and environs, the authorities in Jerusalem, or even the people hostile to Jesus.

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adjc. | -αία, -αῖον

93.170 · Names of Persons and Places · Persons

a Jewess (derivative of Ἰούδας[a] ‘Judah,’ 93.173, and Ἰούδας[c] ‘Judah,’ 93.488) the ethnic name of a woman belonging to the Jewish nation

ACT 24:24

1 These derivatives relate historically both to the proper name of the person Judah and also to the locality which derived its name from the tribal entity.

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

᾿Ιουδαῖος, -aia, -atov, (Ἰούδα), [ Aristot. (in Joseph. ce. Ap. 1, 22, 7 where see Miiller), Polyb., Diod., Strab., Plut., al.; Sept.; (cf. Soph. Lex. s. v.)], Jewish ; a. joined to nouns, belonging to the Jewish race: avnp, Acts x. 28; xxii 8, (1 Mace. ii. 23); ἄνθρωπος, Acis xxi. 89; ψευδοπροφήτης, Acts xiii. 6; ἀρχιερεύς, Acts xix. 14 ; γυνή, Acts XVi. 1; xxiv. 24; γῆ, Jn. 111. 22; χώρα, Mk.i.d. b. without a noun, substantively, Jewish as respects birth, race, religion; aJew: Jn. ἵν. 9; Acts xviii. 2, 24; Ro. ii. 28 sq.; plur., Rev. ii. 9; iii. 9; οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (07377), before the exile citizens of the kingdom of Judah; after the exile all the Israelites [ef. Wright in B.D. 8. v. Jew]), the Jews, the Jewish race: Mt. ii. 2; xxvii. 11, 29; Mk. vii. 3; xv. 2; Jn. ii. 6; iv. 22; ν. 1; xviii. 33, ete.; ᾿Ιουδαῖοί τε καὶ Ἕλληνες, Acts xiv. 1; xviii. 4; xix. 10; 1 Co. i. 24; Ἰουδαῖοί re καὶ προσήλυτοι, Acts ii. 11 (10); ἔθνη τε καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι, Acts xiv. 5; sing., Ro. i. 16; ii. 9; of κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη ᾿Ιουδαῖοι, who live in foreign lands, among the Gentiles, Acts xxi. 21; Ἰουδαῖοι is used of converts from Judaism, Jewish Christians (see ἔθνος, 5) in Gal. ii. 13. [ϑυν. Ἑβραῖος, Ἰουδαῖος, Ἰσραηλίτηπ: “restricting ourselves to the employment of these three words in the N. T. we may say that in the first is predominantly noted language; in the second, nationality; in the third (the augustest title of all), theocratic privileges and glorious vocation” (Trench ὃ xxxix.); cf. B.D. s. vv. Hebrew, Israelite, Jew.] The apostle John, inasmuch as agreeably to the state of things in his day he looked upon the Jews as a body of men hostile to Christianity, with whom he had come to see that both he and all true Christians had nothing in common as respects religious matters, even in his record of the life of Jesus not only himself makes a distinction between the Jews and Jesus, but ascribes to Jesus and his apostles language in which they distinguish themselves from the Jews, as though the latter sprang from an alien race: Jn. xi. 8; xiii. 33. And those who (not only at Jerusalem, but also in Galilee, ef. vi. 41, 52) opposed his divine Master and his Master’s cause, — esp. the rulers, priests, members of the Sanhedrin, Pharisees,—he does not hesitate to style of Ἰουδαῖοι, since the hatred of these leaders exhibits the hatred of the whole nation towards Jesus: i. 19; ii. 18, 20; v.10, 15 sq. 18; vi. 41, 52; vii. 1,11, 18; ix. 18, 22; x. 24, 31, 33; xviii. 14. [Cf. B.D. 5. ν. Jew; Franke, Stellung d. Johannes z. Volke d. alt. Bundes. (Halle, 1882).]

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios 194x

Jewish, Mk. 1:5; Jn. 3:22; Acts 16:1; 24:24; pr. one sprung from the tribe of Judah, or a subject of the kingdom of Judah; in NT a descendant of Jacob, a Jew, Mt. 28:15; Mk. 7:3; Acts 19:34; Rom. 2:28, 29

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

Ἰουδαῖος, -αία, -αῖον

(< Ἰούδας),

Jewish: ἀνήρ, Ac 10:28 22:3; ἄνθρωπος, Ac 21:39; ψευδοπροφήτης, 13:6; ἀσχιερεύς, 19:14; γυνή, 16:1 24:24; γῆ, Jo 3:22; χώρα, Mk 1:5. Substantively, Ἰουδαῖος, ὁ, a Jew: Jo 4:9, Ac 18:24, Ro 2:28; pl., Re 2:9 3:9; οἱ Ἰ., Mt 2:2, Mk 7:3, Jo 2:6, al.; Ἰ. τε καὶ Ἕλληνες, Ac 14:1, al.; κ. προσήλυτοι, Ac 2:10; ἔθνη τε κ. Ἰ., Ac 14:5; οἱ κατὰ τὰ ἔθνη Ἰ., Ac 21:21; of Jewish Christians, Ga 2:13; of the ruling class who opposed Jesus, Jo 1:19 2:18 5:10 11:8 13:33, al.;

Ἰουδαία, -ας, ἡ (sc. γῆ, χώρα, cf. Jo 3:22, Mk 1:5), (Heb. יְהוּדָה), Judæa: Mt 2:1, Lk 1:5, Jo 4:3, al.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

Ἰουδαῖος (Ioudaios) — Jew. Ἰουδαῖος, ὁ, a Jewish man: Ἰουδαία, a Jewish woman; ἡ Ἰουδαία (i.e. γῆ) “Judaea”: —Ἰουδα-ϊκός, ή, όν, “Jewish”, [LXX] adverb -κῶς [NT+1st c.AD+]

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