Judas

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Judas \Ju"das\, n.
     The disciple who betrayed Christ. Hence: A treacherous
     person; one who betrays under the semblance of friendship. --
     a. Treacherous; betraying.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {Judas hole}, a peephole or secret opening for spying.
  
     {Judas kiss},
     (a) a deceitful and treacherous kiss.
     (b) an act appearing to be an act of friendship, which is in
         fact harmful to the recipient.
  
     {Judas tree} (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus {Cercis},
        with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the
        branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree
        of this genus ({Cercis Siliquastrum}). {Cercis Canadensis}
        and {Cercis occidentalis} are the American species, and
        are called also {redbud}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Judas
       n 1: (New Testament) supposed brother of St James; one of the
            Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems
            hopeless [syn: {Jude}, {Saint Jude}, {St. Jude}, {Thaddaeus}]
       2: (New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his
          enemies for 30 pieces of silver [syn: {Judas Iscariot}]
       3: someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
       4: a one-way peephole in a door

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "Judas":
     Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Judas Iscariot, Quisling, archtraitor,
     betrayer, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, convict,
     criminal, crook, deceiver, desperado, desperate criminal,
     double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, felon, fugitive,
     gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, informer, intrigant, intriguer,
     jailbird, lawbreaker, machinator, mobster, outlaw, plotter,
     public enemy, quisling, racketeer, rat, schemer, scofflaw, serpent,
     snake, swindler, thief, thug, timeserver, traitor, treasonist,
     trimmer, turncoat, two-timer
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Judas
     the Graecized form of Judah. (1.) The patriarch (Matt. 1:2, 3).
     
       (2.) Son of Simon (John 6:71; 13:2, 26), surnamed Iscariot,
     i.e., a man of Kerioth (Josh. 15:25). His name is uniformly the
     last in the list of the apostles, as given in the synoptic
     (i.e., the first three) Gospels. The evil of his nature probably
     gradually unfolded itself till "Satan entered into him" (John
     13:27), and he betrayed our Lord (18:3). Afterwards he owned his
     sin with "an exceeding bitter cry," and cast the money he had
     received as the wages of his iniquity down on the floor of the
     sanctuary, and "departed and went and hanged himself" (Matt.
     27:5). He perished in his guilt, and "went unto his own place"
     (Acts 1:25). The statement in Acts 1:18 that he "fell headlong
     and burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out,"
     is in no way contrary to that in Matt. 27:5. The sucide first
     hanged himself, perhaps over the valley of Hinnom, "and the rope
     giving way, or the branch to which he hung breaking, he fell
     down headlong on his face, and was crushed and mangled on the
     rocky pavement below."
     
       Why such a man was chosen to be an apostle we know not, but it
     is written that "Jesus knew from the beginning who should betray
     him" (John 6:64). Nor can any answer be satisfactorily given to
     the question as to the motives that led Judas to betray his
     Master. "Of the motives that have been assigned we need not care
     to fix on any one as that which simply led him on. Crime is, for
     the most part, the result of a hundred motives rushing with
     bewildering fury through the mind of the criminal."
     
       (3.) A Jew of Damascus (Acts 9:11), to whose house Ananias was
     sent. The street called "Straight" in which it was situated is
     identified with the modern "street of bazaars," where is still
     pointed out the so-called "house of Judas."
     
       (4.) A Christian teacher, surnamed Barsabas. He was sent from
     Jerusalem to Antioch along with Paul and Barnabas with the
     decision of the council (Acts 15:22, 27, 32). He was a "prophet"
     and a "chief man among the brethren."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Judas, Jude, same as Judah