The Judæan land (i.e. Judæa), a region of Palestine
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Ioudaia names Judea, the Judean region associated with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, wilderness preaching, temple-centered life, conflict around Jesus, and the early spread of witness. It is a real geographic term, not a symbolic label for Judaism or for all Jewish people.
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Ioudaia names Judea, the Judean region associated with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, wilderness preaching, temple-centered life, conflict around Jesus, and the early spread of witness. It is a real geographic term, not a symbolic label for Judaism or for all Jewish people.
The BSB source-word alignment has 44 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Judea (32), of Judea (10), in Judea (2).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 2:1. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (12), Luke (10), Matthew (8), John (6).
Ioudaia names Judea, the Judean region associated with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, wilderness preaching, temple-centered life, conflict around Jesus, and the early spread of witness. It is a real geographic term, not a symbolic label for Judaism or for all Jewish people. In the Gospels it frames key movements: Jesus is born in Bethlehem of Judea, John preaches in Judea's wilderness, Joseph travels to Judea for the census, Jesus avoids Judea for a time because opponents are seeking to kill Him, and Jesus warns those in Judea to flee in days of distress.
In Acts, Judea becomes part of the mission map: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth. The word helps readers trace how God works in actual regions and sends witness outward from them.
Ioudaia names Judea as a region in the New Testament story. It anchors birth, prophetic preparation, danger, judgment warnings, and mission expansion in concrete geography.
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
Matthew locates Jesus' birth in Bethlehem of Judea under Herod's rule.
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea
John the Baptist's preaching is placed in the wilderness of Judea.
Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Jesus warns those in Judea to flee when the crisis sign appears.
So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
Luke places Joseph's census journey from Nazareth to Judea and Bethlehem.
After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
John notes Jesus avoiding Judea because deadly hostility is present there.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 1:8 places Judea inside the Spirit-empowered witness map that moves outward from Jerusalem.
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Greek word. the Judæan land (i.e. Judæa), a region of Palestine
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 5 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Ἰουδαία is built from these roots:
Ioudaia keeps the New Testament story geographically grounded. Jesus is born in Judea, John preaches in Judea, and the mission in Acts includes Judea before moving through Samaria to the ends of the earth. Yet the region is not a simple positive or negative symbol. Judea can be the place of Davidic promise, prophetic preparation, public crowds, official hostility, flight in coming distress, and Spirit-empowered witness.
John 7 shows danger there; Acts 1 shows mission there. The term therefore calls teachers to avoid lazy symbolic use. Judea is not a code word for unbelief, ethnicity, or legalism. It is a real region where God's promises, warnings, conflicts, and mission unfold in history.
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Ioudaia is a proper noun for Judea. English may render it as Judea, in Judea, of Judea, or the region of Judea depending on case and sentence flow.
Judea belongs to the larger biblical geography of Judah, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, wilderness, exile, return, and messianic hope. The New Testament uses the region within that history while also showing the gospel moving beyond it to Samaria and the nations.
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