Synonyms:
judas
Meaning: a one-way peephole in a door
Synonyms:
Judas
Meaning: someone who betrays under the guise of friendship
Synonyms:
Judas, Judas_Iscariot
Meaning: (New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver
Synonyms:
Jude, Saint_Jude, St._Jude, Judas, Thaddaeus
Meaning: (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless
Usage examples
And truly any one would be surprised at Judas upon this occasion.
Benjamin Disraeli attained the cynical sublime when he suggested a monument of gratitude to Judas.
As Also Concerning The Actions Of The Maccabees, Matthias And Judas; And Concerning The Death Of Judas.
And when a great many of his men were slain, Judas took the rest with him, and fled to the toparchy of Gophna.
He then took Bethsura, which was a small city; but at a place called Bethzacharis, where the passage was narrow, Judas met him with his army.
I could have reasoned with her on the matter, and shown her that she was not merely a thief, but a thief of the worst kind, a Judas who robbed the poor, and so robbed God.
So he came to the government by this his success, and became the prince of his own people by their own free consent, and then died, leaving the government to Judas, his eldest son.
When Jonathan, who was Judas's brother, succeeded him, he behaved himself with great circumspection in other respects, with relation to his own people; and he corroborated his authority by preserving his friendship with the Romans.
Now he that governed the elephant was but a private man; and had he proved to be Antiochus, Eleazar had performed nothing more by this bold stroke than that it might appear he chose to die, when he had the bare hope of thereby doing a glorious action; nay, this disappointment proved an omen to his brother [Judas] how the entire battle would end.
The whole scheme of the Atonement, as planned by God, is based upon a crime--a crime infinitely atrocious, the crime of murder and deicide, is essential to its success: if Judas had not betrayed, if the Jews had not insisted, if Pilate had not surrendered, if all these turpitudes had not been secured, the Atonement could not have been consummated.