ἸουδαίαIoudaía

Judaea (Hebr. [Hebrew]); in the O. T. a region of Palestine, named after the tribe of Judah, which inhabited it: Judg. xvii. 7–9; Ruth i. 1 sq.; 2 S. ii. 1, etc. Its boundaries are laid down in Josh. xv. 1 sqq. After the time of David, when the kingdom had been rent asunder, the name was given to the kingdom of Judah, to which were reckoned, besides the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, certain cities of the tribes of Dan and Simeon, together with the metropolis of Jerusalem: 1 K. xiv. 21, 29; xv. 7, etc. In the N. T. the name is given 1. in a narrower sense, to the southern part of Palestine lying on this side of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, to distinguish it from Samaria, Galilee, Peraea, Idumaea (Mk. iii. 8): Mt. ii. 1, 5, 22; iii. 5; iv. 25; xxiv. 16; Mk. iii. 7; xiii. 14; Lk. ii. 4; Jn. iv. 3, 47, 54; Acts i. 8; viii. 1, etc.; it stands for its inhabitants in Mt. iii. 5; Mk. i. 5, (2 Chr. xxxii. 33; xxxv. 24). 2. in a broader sense, to all Palestine: Lk. i. 5; [iv. 44 WH Tr mrg.]; vii. 17; xxiii. 5; Acts ii. 9; x. 37; xi. 1, 29, (and perh. 2 Co. i. 16; Gal. i. 22); πᾶσα ἡ χώρα τῆς Ἰουδαίας, Acts xxvi. 20; εἰς τὰ ὅρια τῆς Ἰουδαίας πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, into the borders of Judaea (in the broader sense) beyond the Jordan, i. e. into Peraea, Mt. xix. 1; on the contrary, in the parallel pass. Mk. x. 1 R G, εἰς τὰ ὅρ. τῆς Ἰουδ. διὰ τοῦ πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδ., Jesus is said to have come into the borders of Judaea (in the narrower sense) through Peraea; but acc. …