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HebrewH3063Proper Noun (Masculine)

יְהוּדָה

ye.hu.dah

703Occurrences
H3063Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory

from H3034 (יָדָה); celebrated;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); married to Bath-shua (H1323I) and Tamar (H8559); father of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209), Shelah (H7956), Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I) § Judah = "praised" 1) the son of Jacob by ) the tribe descended from Judah the son of ) the territory occupied by the tribe of ) the kingdom comprised of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin which occupied the southern part of Canaan after the nation split upon the death of Solomon 5) a Levite in Ezra's time 6) an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah 7) a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah 8) a priest in the time of Nehemiah

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

יְהוּדָה appears 703 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
163
2 Chronicles
138
2 Kings
86
1 Kings
36
Genesis
26
Isaiah
25
Nehemiah
25
Judges
22

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 13:6BSB

David and all Israel went up to Baalah of Judah (that is, Kiriath-jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.

2 Chronicles 24:23BSB

In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.

2 Kings 8:16BSB

In the fifth year of the reign of Joram son of Ahab over Israel, Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat succeeded his father as king of Judah.

Judges 1:2BSB

“Judah shall go up,” answered the LORD. “Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands.”

Jeremiah 4:4BSB

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD,and remove the foreskins of your hearts,O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem.Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fireand burn with no one to extinguish it,because of your evil deeds.”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.