Ioudaia · Judea

What it means

Ioudaia (Ἰουδαία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Judea”.

The southern region of the land of Israel, around Jerusalem.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

The place

• Judea

  Today: southern Israel and West Bank, Judean hills

  The southern region of Israel, including Jerusalem; in Jesus' time it was a Roman province.

  Jesus was born there, and John the Immerser preached there (Matt 2:1; 3:1). Jesus told his disciples to be witnesses in Judea (Acts 1:8).

  Matthew 2:1Matthew 3:1Acts 1:8Luke 1:5

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Judea ×43
• Judean ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×8
• Mark×4
• Luke×10
• John×6
• Acts×12
• Romans×1
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1

• Matthew 2:1

  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, look, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

• Matthew 2:5

  And they said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written through the prophet:

• Matthew 2:22

  But hearing that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there; and having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the region of Galilee,

• Matthew 3:1

  In those days John the Immerser appears, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea

• Matthew 3:5

  Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region around the Jordan were going out to him,

• Matthew 4:25

  And large crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and beyond the Jordan.

• Matthew 19:1

  And it happened when Jesus had finished these words that he departed from Galilee and came into the region of Judea beyond the Jordan.

• Matthew 24:16

  then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

• Mark 1:5

  And all the Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem were going out to him, and they were being immersed by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.

• Mark 3:7

  And Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and from Judea

• Mark 10:1

  And getting up from there, he goes into the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan; and crowds gather around him again, and as was his custom, he was again teaching them.

• Mark 13:14

  But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those in Judea flee to the mountains;

• Luke 1:5

  There was, in the days of Herod, king of Judea, a certain priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.

• Luke 1:65

  And fear came on all who lived around them, and in all the hill country of Judea all these things were being talked about,

• Luke 2:4

  And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,

• Luke 3:1

  Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

• Luke 4:44

  And he was proclaiming in the synagogues of Judea.

• Luke 5:17

  And it happened, on one of the days, that he was teaching, and there were sitting there Pharisees and teachers of the law who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him for him to heal.

• Luke 6:17

  And coming down with them, he stood on a level place, and there was a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coast of Tyre and Sidon,

• Luke 7:17

  And this account about him went out in all Judea and all the surrounding region.

• Luke 21:21

  Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those in the middle of it must get out, and those in the fields must not enter into it;

• Luke 23:5

  But they kept insisting, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, and beginning from Galilee as far as here.”

• John 4:3

  he left Judea and went away again to Galilee.

• John 4:47

  When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

• John 4:54

  Now this was again a second sign that Jesus did, having come from Judea into Galilee.

• John 7:1

  And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

• John 7:3

  So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples too may see your works that you are doing.

• John 11:7

  Then after this he says to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.”

• Acts 1:8

  but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

• Acts 2:9

  Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

• Acts 8:1

  And Saul was approving of his killing. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the assembly that was in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

• Acts 9:31

  So the assembly throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being built up; and walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it was multiplied.

• Acts 10:37

  you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee after the immersion that John proclaimed:

• Acts 11:1

  Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the nations also had received the word of God.

• Acts 11:29

  And the disciples, as anyone was prospering, determined, each of them, to send something for aid to the brothers who lived in Judea;

• Acts 12:19

  And Herod, after searching for him and not finding him, examined the guards and ordered them to be led away; and going down from Judea to Caesarea, he stayed there.

• Acts 15:1

  And some who had come down from Judea were teaching the brothers: “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

• Acts 21:10

  And while we were staying many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

• Acts 26:20

  but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and to the nations, I declared that they should change their minds and turn to God, doing works worthy of the change of mind.

• Acts 28:21

  And they said to him, “We have neither received letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers come and reported or spoken anything evil about you.

And 4 more times.