Judas
pronunciation
How to pronounce Judas in British English:
UK [ˈdʒu:dəs]
How to pronounce Judas in American English:
US [ˈdʒudəs]
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- Noun:
- a one-way peephole in a door
Word Origin
- Judas
- biblical betrayer of Christ, Latin form of Greek Ioudas, from Hebrew Yehudha (see Judah). As a name for a malicious traitor, it is attested from late 15c. Judas priest as an exclamation in place of "Jesus Christ" is from 1914. Judas tree (1660s) supposedly was the type from which Judas hanged himself. The Judas goat (1941) leads sheep to the shackling pen.
Example
- 1. Judas is reviled in history as the disciple who betrayed jesus to his death .
- 2. So if judas was a faithful apostle , christ wouldn 't have died so there could be no salvation .
- 3. The surviving gospel of judas was probably copied sometime between a.d. 220 and 340 , decades after the original was written .
- 4. The gospel is one of redemption for christianity 's greatest villain . It relates that judas was the chosen disciple and a tragic hero selected by jesus to betray him .
- 5. Although perhaps 15 to 20 percent of the original document was lost , the remainder is a revelation-more than sufficient to tell the tale of judas and jesus as we 've never heard it before .