Meaning of Judas Iscariot | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One of the twelve disciples of Jesus in the New Testament, who betrayed Jesus into the hands of the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver.
2. A betrayer.

Equivalents

Examples

“—Ah (said he) she’s a Judas Iscariot, and has betrayed me with a kiss[…]”

“Alf Bergan will speak⟳ to the long fellow. We’ll put⟳ a barleystraw in that Judas Iscariot’s ear this time.”

“It was far more generous treatment than they deserved, because, to speak⟳ frankly and strongly, these men had been the industrial Judas Iscariots to the rest⟳ of the working classes and to the working-class movement.”

“But among these disciples there was a Judas Iscariot in the person of an ignorant and narrow-minded fanatic named De Francon, who played the same part in the martyrdom of Vanini as Mocenigo in the destruction of Bruno.”

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