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
- יָדָהyâdâh · H3034physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
- ἸουδάIoudá · G2448Judah (i.e. Jehudah or Juttah), a part of (or place in) Palestine
- ἸούδαςIoúdas · G2455Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region
- בַּעֲלֵי יְהוּדָהBaʻălêy Yᵉhûwdâh · H1184Baale-Jehudah, a place in Palestine
- יְהוּדYᵉhûwd · H3061properly, Judah, hence, Judaea
- יְהוּדִיYᵉhûwdîy · H3064a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)
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.
See every passage
- Genesis 26 verses
- Exodus 4 verses
- Numbers 12 verses
- Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Joshua 22 verses
- Judges 22 verses
- Ruth 4 verses
- 1 Samuel 14 verses
- 2 Samuel 27 verses
- 1 Kings 39 verses
- 2 Kings 88 verses
- 1 Chronicles 22 verses
- 2 Chronicles 145 verses
- Ezra 13 verses
- Nehemiah 27 verses
- Esther 1 verses
- Psalms 10 verses
- Proverbs 1 verses
- Isaiah 26 verses
- Jeremiah 165 verses
- Lamentations 5 verses
- Ezekiel 15 verses
- Daniel 4 verses
- Hosea 15 verses
- Joel 6 verses
- Amos 4 verses
- Obadiah 1 verses
- Micah 4 verses
- Nahum 1 verses
- Zephaniah 3 verses
- Haggai 4 verses
- Zechariah 20 verses
- Malachi 2 verses
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).