Judean
- noun
- /dʒuˈdiən/
- The Judean people celebrated their cultural heritage with a vibrant festival every year.
- Judean hills
- Judean desert
Examples
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At four o'clock in the morning, the winds of the Judean desert rattle the windows of Zvi Anosh's trailer.
Academic text (1996) -
I had gone to the ritual bath late, as the sun began to set behind the Judean hills.
Academic text (1995) -
These are Judean graves.
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Bethany was less than two miles from Jerusalem... and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary... to comfort them about their brother's death.
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But John may have reckoned according to the Judean method (beginning the day at sunset), a system used by the Sadducees.
Blog text (9) -
When you walk around there, you feel you are walking where the biblical prophets Jeremiah, Yeshayahu, or the Judean kings walked.
Academic text (2010) -
At 4 a.m., in the quiet stillness of a Sabbath morning in the Judean hills, Shoshana's contractions had begun.
Fiction book (1995) -
In the seventh year of the reign of Augustus Caesar... ...an imperial decree ordered every Judean... ...each to return to his place of birth... ...to be counted and taxed.
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In the more popular account of the apostle Luke, Joseph and a very pregnant Mary traveled more than 90 miles from their residence in Nazareth to Joseph's Judean hometown of Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census.
Academic text (2005) -
During ancient times, many Judean traders traveled to far-off lands in search of goods.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Judean comes from the name Judah and the place Judea, an ancient people and region known from the Bible. So a Judean is someone 'from Judea', especially when we talk about people in historical times.