How to Pronounce Judas_Iscariot
DZHOU-duhs_ihs-KEHR-ee-uht
Judas_Iscariot is pronounced DZHOU-duhs_ihs-KEHR-ee-uht: five syllables, stress on the first and third.
What is Judas_Iscariot?
(Judas of Kerioth). He is sometimes called “the son of Simon,” (John 6:71; 13:2,26) but more commonly ISCARIOTES. (Matthew 10:4; Mark 3:19; Luke 6:16) etc. The name Iscariot has received many interpretations more of less conjectural. The most probable is from Ish Kerioth, i.e. “man of Kerioth,” a town in the tribe of Judah. (Joshua 15:25) Of the life of Judas before the appearance of his name in the lists of the apostles we know absolutely nothing. What that appearance implies, however, is that he had previously declared himself a disciple.
Adapted from Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863), public domain.