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JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS

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JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS (noun)
  The noun JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS has 1 sense:

1. Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)play

  Familiarity information: JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS used as a noun is very rare.


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JOSEPH BEN MATTHIAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Jewish general who led the revolt of the Jews against the Romans and then wrote a history of those events (37-100)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Flavius Josephus; Joseph ben Matthias; Josephus

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)

Pharisee (a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions)


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