Ioudaios · Jew, Judean

What it means

Ioudaios (Ἰουδαῖος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “Jew, Judean”.

One of the people of Judah; in the New Testament it often means the leaders of the people.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A person of the people of Israel, named after the tribe of Judah.
2. The Jewish leaders who opposed Jesus.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Word study

Jew: of the people of Judah. Abbott-Smith also gives the adjective “Judean”. It comes from the name Judah; from the same family is Ἰουδαία, “Judea”.

• “The King of the Jews” Mark 15:2Luke 23:38
• The Jews as a people, with their feasts John 6:4Acts 2:5
• In John, those who argue with Jesus John 8:52John 8:57
• Jews and non-Jews in Paul's letters Romans 2:28

How we translate it

“Jews” 166 times, “Jew” 18, “Jewish” 9. This edition's glossary sets “the Jews”, and “the Judeans” where the region is meant.

How it is translated

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

• Jews ×166
• Jew ×18
• Jewish ×9
• Judea ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×6
• Luke×5
• John×71
• Acts×79
• Romans×11
• 1 Corinthians×8
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Galatians×4
• Colossians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• Revelation×2

• Matthew 2:2

  saying, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to bow down before him.”

• Matthew 27:11

  Now Jesus stood before the governor; and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And Jesus said, “You say so.”

• Matthew 27:29

  And after twisting a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand; and kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Matthew 27:37

  And they put above his head the charge against him written: “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.”

• Matthew 28:15

  And they took the money and did as they had been instructed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

• Mark 7:3

  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with the fist, holding to the tradition of the elders;

• Mark 15:2

  And Pilate questioned him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answers him, saying, “You say so.”

• Mark 15:9

  And Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”

• Mark 15:12

  And Pilate again answered and was saying to them, “What then do you want me to do with the one whom you call the King of the Jews?”

• Mark 15:18

  And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

• Mark 15:26

  And the inscription of the charge against him was written above: “The King of the Jews.”

• Luke 7:3

  And when he heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and save his slave.

• Luke 23:3

  And Pilate asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him and said, “You say so.”

• Luke 23:37

  and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!”

• Luke 23:38

  And there was also an inscription over him: “This is the King of the Jews.”

• Luke 23:51

  (this one had not consented to their decision and action), from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God.

• John 1:19

  And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

• John 2:6

  Now there were six stone water jars standing there for the purification of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

• John 2:13

  And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

• John 2:18

  So the Jews answered and said to him, “What sign do you show us, since you do these things?”

• John 2:20

  So the Jews said, “This sanctuary was built in forty-six years, and you will raise it up in three days?”

• John 3:1

  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

• John 3:22

  After this Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea, and there he spent time with them and was immersing.

• John 3:25

  So a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew about purification.

• John 4:9

  So the Samaritan woman says to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

• John 4:22

  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

• John 5:1

  After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

• John 5:10

  So the Jews were saying to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your mat.”

• John 5:15

  The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

• John 5:16

  And for this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

• John 5:18

  For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

• John 6:4

  Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

• John 6:41

  So the Jews were grumbling about him because he had said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

• John 6:52

  So the Jews were arguing with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

• 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 7:2

  Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

• John 7:11

  So the Jews were looking for him at the feast and saying, “Where is he?”

• John 7:13

  Yet no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

• John 7:15

  So the Jews were amazed, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never studied?”

• John 7:35

  So the Jews said to one another, “Where is this man about to go that we will not find him? Is he about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

And 154 more times.