יְהוּדָהYᵉhûwdâh

proper name, masculine [also of a territory]: Judah

Pronunciation: yeh-hoo-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3063

Meanings

I.

1. son of Jacob and Leah (Genesis 29:35; Genesis 49:8; Genesis 49:9)

2. tribe descended from Judah (Deuteronomy 33:7; Numbers 1:7; Deuteronomy 27:12)

3. nation, of southern kingdom under dynasty of David, as distinguished from northern kingdom of Ephraim or Israel (Hosea 4:15; Jeremiah 2:28; 2 Chronicles 12:12)

4. Levite, Ezra's time (Ezra 10:23)

5. an over-seer of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 11:9)

6. Levite musician (Nehemiah 12:8)

7. priest (Nehemiah 12:36)

II. land of Judah (Isaiah 7:6; Jeremiah 23:6; Jeremiah 33:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 820 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 29:35 Once again Leah became pregnant and gave birth to another son. She named him Judah, for she said, “Now I will praise the Lord!” And then she stopped having children.
  • Genesis 35:23 The sons of Leah were Reuben (Jacob’s oldest son), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
  • Genesis 37:26 Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain by killing our brother? We’d have to cover up the crime.
  • Genesis 38:1 About this time, Judah left home and moved to Adullam, where he stayed with a man named Hirah.
  • Genesis 38:2 There he saw a Canaanite woman, the daughter of Shua, and he married her. When he slept with her,
  • Genesis 38:6 In the course of time, Judah arranged for his firstborn son, Er, to marry a young woman named Tamar.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).