Ἰουδαῖος

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

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

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

• 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of John 4:9:

  λέγει οὖν αὐτῷ ἡ γυνὴ ἡ Σαμαρεῖτις, Πῶς σὺ Ἰουδαῖος ὢν παρ’ ἐμοῦ πιεῖν αἰτεῖς, οὔσης γυναικὸς Σαμαρείτιδος; (οὐ γὰρ συγχρῶνται Ἰουδαῖοι Σαμαρείταις.)

  légei oûn autôi hē gunḕ hē Samareîtis, Pôs sù Ioudaîos ṑn par’ emoû pieîn aiteîs, oúsēs gunaikòs Samareítidos? (ou gàr sunkhrôntai Ioudaîoi Samareítais.)

  • Translation by KJV

    Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

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

• → Coptic: ⲓⲟⲩⲇⲁⲓ (ioudai)
• → Gothic: 𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (iudaius)
• Greek: Ιουδαίος (Ioudaíos)
• → Latin: Iūdaeus, iūdaeus (see there for further descendants)

• “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, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • judaea idem, page 465.