southern region of ancient Palestine
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Judea Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Noun
1. the southern part of the ancient Palestine succeeding the kingdom of Judah; a Roman province at the time of Christ
(synonym) Judaea
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-holonym) Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land
Judea Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Judea or Judæa (; from , Standard Yəhuda Tiberian "Tribe of Judah", Greek: Ιουδαία, Ioudaía; ) was the name of the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel ( Eretz Yisrael) from the 8th century BCE (Assyrian rule) to the 2nd century CE, when Roman Judea was renamed Syria Palaestina following the Jewish Bar Kokhba revolt.
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Judea Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
After the Captivity this name was applied to the whole of the country west of the Jordan (Hag. 1:1, 14; 2:2). But under the Romans, in the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of Palestine (Matt. 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21). The province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of Ephraim. Under the Romans it was a part of the province of Syria, and was governed by a procurator.
Judea, same as Judah
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock. About