Ἰτουραῖος G2484
Iturean, pertaining to Iturea; a region northeast of Galilee
This adjective refers to Iturea, a tetrarchy northeast of Galilee in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range. Luke 3:1 mentions Philip as tetrarch 'of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis,' providing geographical-political context for John the Baptist's ministry. The Itureans were descendants of Ishmael (see 1 Chronicles 5:19), and by the first century their territory had been incorporated into the larger Herodian administrative system. Luke's precision anchors sacred history in datable political realities.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Luke's chronological framework employs recognizable political boundaries to date John's prophetic emergence. The French 'Iturée' and Spanish 'Itouraía' transliterate the regional name. By listing Philip's tetrarchy alongside Tiberius's reign and Pilate's governorship, Luke signals that the kingdom of God breaks into actual history at a specific moment—not mythic time but the real world of Roman bureaucracy and Herodian client kings. 1×
AR["إِيطُورِيَّةَ"]·ben["ইতূরিয়ার"]·DE["Ἰτουραίας"]·EN["Itouraia"]·FR["Iturée"]·heb["אִיטוּרָיָה"]·HI["इतुरिया"]·ID["itu"]·IT["itouraias"]·jav["Ituréa"]·KO["이두라이아-와"]·PT["Itureia"]·RU["Итуреей"]·ES["Itouraía"]·SW["Ituraya"]·TR["İturya"]·urd["ایتوریہ"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Ἰτουραῖος, -αία, -αῖον [in LXX: 1Ch.5:19 A (יְטוּר) * ;] Ituræan (in cl. always ὁι Ἰ., the Ituræans) χώρα (ἡ Ἰτουραίων ὀρεινή, τὰ τῶν Ἰ. μέρη, Strabo, XVI, ii, 16, 20), Luk.3:1 (cf. Exp. (1894), ix, 51 ff., 143 ff., 288 ff.).† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)