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Definition of Idumean

Idumean
Idumean Id`u*me"an, a. Of or pertaining to ancient Idumea, or Edom, in Western Asia. -- n. An inhabitant of Idumea, an Edomite.

Meaning of Idumean from wikipedia

- Be'er Sheva. The people appear under a Gr**** form of their old name, as Idumeans or Idumaeans, and their new territory was called Idumea or Idumaea (Gr****:...
- and Jew when they converted Idumeans but others, who held a strict interpretation of Deuteronomy 17:15, feared the Idumean Herodians would usurp the Hasmoneans...
- (Gr****: Kωζαι Kōzai) was the national god of the Edomites. He was the Idumean structural parallel to Yahweh. The name occurs only twice in the Old Testament...
- Josephus as referring to Herod as "no more than a private man, and an Idumean, i.e. a half Jew". Early Church Fathers often portray Herod polemically...
- Zealots to the Idumeans, a major force of some 20,000 armed Idumeans arrived to Jerusalem. It was allowed in by the Zealots and thus, with Idumeans entering...
- the Herodian dynasty in 37 BCE. The installation of Herod the Great (an Idumean) as king in 37 BCE made Judea a Roman client state and marked the end of...
- also the Galilee and Transjordan. In the beginning of this process the Idumeans, who had infiltrated southern Judea after the destruction of the First...
- family were Idumean Arabs forcibly converted to Judaism by John Hyrc**** and whose mother, according to Josephus, was non-Jewish (either an Idumean Arab or...
- against Mesha, the Moabite king, were being tortured by drought in the Idumean desert, Elisha consented to intervene. His double prediction regarding...
- leaders Julius Caesar Cleopatra VII Mithridates of Pergamum Antipater the Idumean Ptolemy XIII † Arsinoe IV (POW) Ganymedes † Strength c. 20,000 infantry...