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- adjective From or pertaining to
Judaea . - noun Anyone from or related to
Judaea .
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Examples
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Few resented her tone as deeply as her Judaean neighbor, Herod the Great; the relationship between the two sovereigns proceeded by mutual betrayals.
Still Under Cleopatra's Spell Stacy Schiff 2010
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All would be so much simpler, argued the Judaean king, if his henchmen simply eliminated the pesky Egyptian queen.
Still Under Cleopatra's Spell Stacy Schiff 2010
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After her death his ruinous spending habits left him heavily in debt, and the death of his friend Drusus in 23, allegedly at the hands of Livilla and her lover Sejanus, led him to flee his creditors and sail to his Judaean homeland.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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Her grandfathers were the two rival Hasmoneans who invited Rome to intervene in Judaean internal affairs and eventually brought about the downfall of the Hasmonean kingdom.
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Eventually, she wrote five volumes of “Judaean Leaves,” a program guide for group leaders.
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The merchant in the novel is a Judaean; he's been to China, but I don't know whether he actually goes to Rome or just sells his goods on to a Roman merchant when he gets home.
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During the last seige of Jerusalem, while the rest of the Judaean Zealots were ready to fight to the death with the Romans, swords and spears and macho battle cries, ready to die for the return of the Kingdom, for the Temple, for the priesthood, Yochanan had himself smuggled out of the city in a coffin.
The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006
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Something in their gait, each step firmly planted in earth: not like the quick clipped steps of Yerushalmis, nor yet the nervous picking-between-the-stones of Judaean hill folk.
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The relative postion occupied by the Jewish nation in the revealed purposes of Jehovah, towards our world: A sermon preached on behalf of the Philo-Judaean ...
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The film traces the palimpsest from Constantinople to a Greek Orthodox monastery in the Judaean desert to the library of the Greek Patriarch in Jerusalem.
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