Iudaeorum

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Iudaeorum is the Latin word meaning "of the Jews," famously appearing as part of the inscription on the cross in Christian tradition.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Iudaeorum canonical 1
Judeans 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latin word
abbreviationContext INRI
surface form: INRI stands for Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum
appearsIn New Testament crucifixion narratives
appearsOn Christian crosses and crucifixes with INRI
associatedWith Christian tradition
Jesus Christ
surface form: Jesus of Nazareth

crucifixion of Jesus
case genitive
category Biblical Latin vocabulary
Christian epigraphy
componentOf INRI
surface form: Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum
contrastedWith Greek inscription on the cross
Hebrew or Aramaic inscription on the cross
culturalSignificance symbolic element of Christian iconography
denotes belonging to the Jews
etymologicalRelation derived from Iudaea (Judea)
grammaticalGenderOfRoot masculine (Iudaeus)
historicalUsage Roman-era Latin texts
iconographicContext depictions of the crucifixion
inscriptionLanguageSet Latin part of trilingual titulus
language Latin
lexicalCategory noun form
meaning of Jews
of the Jews
morphologicalFeature second declension genitive plural ending -orum
number plural
orthographicVariant Judaeorum (later spelling)
partOfSpeech genitive plural form
refersTo Jewish people
regionOfHistoricalUse Roman Empire
religiousTradition Christianity
rootForm Iudaeus
scripturalContext Gospel of John 19:19–20
Gospel of Luke 23:38
Gospel of Mark 15:26
Matthew 27
surface form: Gospel of Matthew 27:37
semanticField ethnonym
timePeriodOfProminentUse 1st century CE
translationInEnglish of the Jewish people
of the Jews
usedAs part of royal title formula in the Gospels
usedIn INRI inscription
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

INRI firstLetterOf Iudaeorum
Samaritans of Shechem historicalConflictWith Iudaeorum
this entity surface form: Judeans