Ἰουδαῖος

See also: Ιουδαίος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ἰουδά (Ioudá) +‎ -ιος (-ios), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yəhūḏā(h), “Judah”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.uː.dâi̯.os/ → /i.uˈðɛ.os/ → /i.uˈðe.os/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.uː.dâi̯.os/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.uˈdɛ.os/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.uˈðɛ.os/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.uˈðe.os/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.uˈðe.os/

Noun

Ῐ̓ουδαῖος • (Ioudaîos) m (genitive Ῐ̓ουδαίου); second declension

1. Jew or Judean
   • 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 10.265

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἰουδαῖος; τοῦ Ἰουδαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ἰουδαῖος ho Ioudaîos	τὼ Ἰουδαίω tṑ Ioudaíō	οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι hoi Ioudaîoi
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰουδαίου toû Ioudaíou	τοῖν Ἰουδαίοιν toîn Ioudaíoin	τῶν Ἰουδαίων tôn Ioudaíōn
Dative	τῷ Ἰουδαίῳ tôi Ioudaíōi	τοῖν Ἰουδαίοιν toîn Ioudaíoin	τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις toîs Ioudaíois
Accusative	τὸν Ἰουδαῖον tòn Ioudaîon	τὼ Ἰουδαίω tṑ Ioudaíō	τοὺς Ἰουδαίους toùs Ioudaíous
Vocative	Ἰουδαῖε Ioudaîe	Ἰουδαίω Ioudaíō	Ἰουδαῖοι Ioudaîoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Ῐ̓ουδαίᾱ (Ioudaíā, “Jewess, Judea”)
• Ῐ̓ουδαϊκός (Ioudaïkós, “Jewish”)
• Ῐ̓ουδαϊκῶς (Ioudaïkôs)

Descendants

• → Coptic: ⲓⲟⲩⲇⲁⲓ (ioudai)
• → Gothic: 𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (iudaius)
• → Latin: iūdaeus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “Ἰουδαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἰουδαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2453 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • judaea idem, page 465.