Jew
Ioudaios identifies a Jewish person or people, often in contrast with Greeks or Gentiles and sometimes as an individual descriptor.
The term identifies Jewish people as a group or a person as Jewish, frequently where they are contrasted with Greeks or Gentiles, addressed collectively, or described in relation to synagogues, public actions, and individual identity.
Senses in use
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Identification of Jewish people or an individual · dominant
Plural forms identify a group in contrasts with Greeks or Gentiles: in 1 Corinthians 1:22 the APB renders a contrast between those who ask for signs and those who seek wisdom, and in Acts 14:1 it renders both groups coming to believe. The same identification can describe an individual, as the nominative singular form does of Apollos in Acts 18:24 and Paul in Acts 21:39; genitive forms also mark associations such as the synagogues in Acts 13:5.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term as “Jews” for groups and “Jew” or “Jewish” for an individual or an attributive description, as in Acts 18:24 and Acts 16:1. These renderings confirm the verse-level identification rather than establish a separate lexical nuance.