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Strong's G2401 Ἰδουμαία (idoumaia)

Idoumaia - meaning, definition, and linked Bible usage across the indexed canon, including Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where this Strong's number appears.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2401 — chataah (“offence”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2401
Language Greek
Linked Usages 53
Books 19

Strong's G2401 Quick Answer

Strong's G2401 Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Idoumaia (id-ou-mai'-ah) n/l. 1. Idumaea (i.e. Edom), a region East (and South) of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H123)] It has 53 linked Bible usages across 19 books. Visible English usage signals include idumaea. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
Idoumaia (id-ou-mai'-ah) n/l. 1. Idumaea (i.e. Edom), a region East (and South) of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H123)]
Usage
53 linked usages
Books
19 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
idumaea

Meaning and Definition

Idoumaia (id-ou-mai'-ah) n/l. 1. Idumaea (i.e. Edom), a region East (and South) of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H123)] KJV: Idumaea Root(s): H123

Original Word
Ἰδουμαία
Transliteration
Idoumaia
Derivation
Root: אֱדוֹם אֱדוֹם R1: 123
Morphology
Name Location

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2401. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

Idumea

Usage: Ἰδουμαία, -ας, ἡ (Heb. אֱדֹם), [in LXX: 2Ki.8:14, a1.; elsewhere, as Gen.25:30, Ἐδώμ ;] Idumæa: Mrk.3:8.† (AS)

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How Strong's G2401 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Idoumaia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

Idumaea Mark 3:8

How Strong's G2401 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 46 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2401 (Ἰδουμαία) appears 55 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2401 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G2401 in the New Testament

1 indexed usage in New Testament.

Mark 3:8 KJV

And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

Strong's G2401 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

46 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 36:16 Septuagint / Brenton

chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

Joshua 15:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And the borders of the tribe of Judah according to their families were from the borders of Edom from the wilderness of Zin, as far as Kadesh southward.

2 Kingdoms 8:12 Septuagint / Brenton

out of Edom, and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek, and from the spoils of Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah.

Strong's G2401 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 4:15 Septuagint / Brenton

Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazara, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them as many as three thousand men.

1 Maccabees 4:29 Septuagint / Brenton

So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

1 Maccabees 4:61 Septuagint / Brenton

And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Beth-zur to preserve it; that the people might have a defense against Idumea.

Usage Excerpts

First 53 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2401.

Genesis 36:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.
Joshua 15:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the borders of the tribe of Judah according to their families were from the borders of Edom from the wilderness of Zin, as far as Kadesh southward.
2 Kingdoms 8:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
out of Edom, and out of Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek, and from the spoils of Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah.
2 Kingdoms 8:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David made himself a name: and when he returned he smote Edom in Gebelem to the number of eighteen thousand.
2 Kingdoms 8:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he set garrisons in Edom, even in all Edom: and all the Edomites were servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.
3 Kingdoms 11:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And King Solomon was a lover of women. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabitish, Ammonitish women, Syrians and Edomites, Hittites, and Amorites;
3 Kingdoms 11:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord raised up an enemy to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, and Rezon son of Eliada who dwelt in Raama, and Hadadezer king of Zobah his master (and men gathered to him, and he was head of the conspiracy, and he seized on Damascus), and they were adversaries to Israel all the days of Solomon: and Hadad the Edomite was of the seed royal in Edom.
3 Kingdoms 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it happened, that while David was utterly destroying Edom, while Joab captain of the host was going to bury the dead, when they slew every male in Edom
3 Kingdoms 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
(for Joab and all Israel abode there six months in Edom, until he utterly destroyed every male in Edom);
4 Kingdoms 14:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast smitten and wounded Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up: stay at home and glorify thyself; for wherefore art thou quarrelsome to thy hurt? So both thou wilt fall and Judah with thee.
1 Chronicles 18:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the golden and silver and brazen vessels, even these King David consecrated to the Lord, with the silver and the gold which he took from all the nations; from Edom, and Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
1 Chronicles 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Abishai son of Zeruiah smote the Edomites in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand.
2 Chronicles 8:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Solomon went to Ezion-geber, and to Eloth near the sea in the land of Edom.
2 Chronicles 25:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it came to pass, after Amaziah had returned from smiting Edom, that he brought home the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up for himself as gods, and bowed down before them, and he sacrificed to them.
2 Chronicles 25:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou hast said, Behold, I have smitten Edom, and thy stout heart exalts thee: now stay at home; for why dost thou implicate thyself in mischief, that thou shouldest fall, and Judah with thee?
2 Chronicles 25:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless Amaziah hearkened not, for it was of the Lord to deliver him into the enemy’s hands, because he sought after the gods of the Edomites.
2 Chronicles 28:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because the Edomites had attacked him, and smitten Judah, and taken a number of prisoners.
Psalms 59:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Judah is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; The Philistines have been subjected to me.
Psalms 59:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will guide me as far as Edom?
Psalms 107:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moab is the caldron of my hope; Over Edom will I cast my sandal; The Philistines are made subject to me.
Psalms 107:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who will bring me into the fortified city? Or who will guide me to Edom?
Isaiah 11:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall fly in the ships of the Philistines: they shall at the same time spoil the sea, and them that come from the east, and Edom: and they shall lay their hands on Moab first; but the children of Ammon shall first obey them.
Isaiah 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The vision of Edom. Call to me out of Seir; guard ye the bulwarks.
Isaiah 34:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
My sword has been made drunk in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.
Isaiah 34:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is glutted with fat, with the blood of goats and lambs, and with the fat of goats and rams: for the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in Edom.
Jeremiah 30:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord; There is no longer wisdom in Tema, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,
Jeremiah 30:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Edom shall be a desert: everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.
Jeremiah 30:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore hear ye the counsel of the Lord, which he has framed against Edom; and his device, which he has devised against the inhabitants of Teman: surely the least of the sheep shall be swept off; surely their dwelling shall be made desolate for them.
Jeremiah 30:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, he shall look upon her as an eagle, and spread forth his wings over her strongholds; and the heart of the mighty men of Edom shall be in that day as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Jeremiah 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon,
Jeremiah 34:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and thou shalt send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hands of their messengers that come to meet them at Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.
Jeremiah 47:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and those that were in Edom, and those that were in all the rest of the country, heard that the king of Babylon had granted a remnant to Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
Lamentations 4:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, That dwellest in the land: Yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: Thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.
Ezekiel 25:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and because they have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;
Ezekiel 25:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore thus saith the Lord; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will utterly destroy out of it man and beast; and will make it desolate; and they that are pursued out of Teman shall fall by the sword.
Ezekiel 25:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will execute my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall deal in Edom according to mine anger and according to my wrath, and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord.
Ezekiel 35:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt be desert, O Mount Seir, and all Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed: and thou shalt know that I am the Lord their God.
Ezekiel 36:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
therefore thus saith the Lord; Verily in the fire of my wrath have I spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, because they have appropriated my land to themselves for a possession with joy, disregarding the lives of the inhabitants, to destroy it by plunder:
Joel 4:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate plain, because of the wrongs of the children of Judah, because they have shed righteous blood in their land.
Amos 1:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they took prisoners the captivity of Solomon, to shut them up into Edom.
Amos 1:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they shut up the prisoners of Solomon into Edom, and remembered not the covenant of brethren.
Amos 1:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them; because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.
Amos 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thus saith the Lord; For three sins of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away from it; because they burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.
Obadiah 1:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom; I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations.
Obadiah 1:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day, saith the Lord, I will destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau.
Malachi 1:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus saith the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set himself forever.
Mark 3:8 New Testament, KJV
And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
1 Maccabees 4:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazara, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them as many as three thousand men.
1 Maccabees 4:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
1 Maccabees 4:61 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Beth-zur to preserve it; that the people might have a defense against Idumea.
1 Maccabees 5:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
1 Maccabees 6:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
These went through Idumea, and pitched against Beth-zur, which they assaulted many days, making engines; but they of Beth-zur came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
2 Maccabees 12:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And after the feast, called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias the governor of Idumea,

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2401, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 5 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Amos 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Obadiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
1 Maccabees 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G2401 FAQ

What does idoumaia (Ἰδουμαία) mean?

Strong's G2401 is a Greek entry for G2401 Ἰδουμαία (Idoumaia). Idoumaia (id-ou-mai'-ah) n/l. 1. Idumaea (i.e. Edom), a region East (and South) of Israel [of Hebrew origin (H123)]

How many times is idoumaia (Ἰδουμαία) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 53 linked usages for Strong's G2401 across 19 books.

Where can I study idoumaia (Ἰδουμαία) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2401 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate idoumaia (Ἰδουμαία)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as idumaea. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G2401 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 46 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2401, with linked reader references where each row is available.