Word study
Judean
2 Hebrew and 2 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: judean, judeans. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “judean” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- יְהוּדִי YehûdîJewishtranslated this way 1 time of its 75 uses · Strong’s H3064Noun · Translated: Jews 60, Jew 9, Jewish 3, men of judah 1Full study and all 69 verses →
2 Kings 25:25 In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
- יְהֻדִיָּה YehudîâhJehudijahtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s H3057Noun · Translated: Judean 1Full study and its 1 verse →
1 Chronicles 4:18 These were the children of Pharaoh’s daughter Bithiah. Mered also took a Judean wife, who gave birth to Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah.
Greek words (New Testament)
- πόλις pólisa citytranslated this way 1 time of its 158 uses · Strong’s G4172Noun · Translated: city 87, town 48, towns 10, cities 9Full study and all 151 verses →
Luke 23:51 who had not consented to their decision or action. He was from the Judean town of Arimathea and was waiting for the kingdom of God.
- Ἰουδαῖος IoudaîosJewishtranslated this way 1 time of its 191 uses · Strong’s G2453Adjective · Translated: Jews 145, Jewish 21, Jew 19Full study and all 182 verses →
John 3:22 After this, Jesus and His disciples went into the Judean countryside, where He spent some time with them and baptized.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.