G2333GreekTheydᾶs
Θευδᾶς
theudas, an israelite
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Total Occurrences
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Books
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Old Testament
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New Testament
Detailed Definition
- 1the name of an insurgent mentioned in gamaliel's speech before the jewish council at the time of the arraignment of the apostles
Etymology & Derivation
of uncertain origin
Scholarly Notes
he appeared, according to luke's account, at the head of about four hundred men. he was probably one of the insurrectionary chiefs or fanatics by whom the land was overrun in the last year of herod's reign. josephus speaks of a theudas who played a similar part at the time of claudius, about ad 44, but the theudas mentioned by luke must be a different person from the one spoken of by josephus.