יְהוּדָה
Judah
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- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
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Genesis 26 verses
- Genesis 29:35 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper She conceived again, and bare a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
- Genesis 35:23 וִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה conj + n Proper The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
- Genesis 37:26 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- Genesis 38:1 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Genesis 38:2 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
- Genesis 38:6 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper Judah took a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
- Genesis 38:7 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of Yahweh. Yahweh killed him.
- Genesis 38:8 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
- Genesis 38:11 יְהוּדָה֩ n Proper Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
- Genesis 38:12 יְהוּדָ֑ה יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper n Proper After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep-shearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
- Genesis 38:15 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper When Judah saw her, he thought that she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
- Genesis 38:20 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend, the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman's hand, but he didn't find her.
- Genesis 38:22 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
- Genesis 38:23 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
- Genesis 38:24 לִֽ/יהוּדָ֤ה יְהוּדָ֔ה prep + n Proper n Proper It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
- Genesis 38:26 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
- Genesis 43:3 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'
- Genesis 43:8 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper Judah said to Israel, his father, "Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, so that we may live, and not die, both we, and you, and also our little ones.
- Genesis 44:14 יְהוּדָ֤ה n Proper Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house, and he was still there. They fell on the ground before him.
- Genesis 44:16 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper Judah said, "What will we tell my lord? What will we speak? Or how will we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants. Behold, we are my lord's bondservants, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found."
- Genesis 44:18 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper Then Judah came near to him, and said, "Oh, my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord's ears, and don't let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even as Pharaoh.
- Genesis 46:12 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
- Genesis 46:28 יְהוּדָ֞ה n Proper He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
- Genesis 49:8 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper "Judah, your brothers will praise you: Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's sons will bow down before you.
- Genesis 49:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up?
- Genesis 49:10 מִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה prep + n Proper The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
Exodus 4 verses
- Exodus 1:2 וִ/יהוּדָֽה conj + n Proper Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
- Exodus 31:2 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper "Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
- Exodus 35:30 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Moses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.
- Exodus 38:22 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 12 verses
- Numbers 1:7 לִֽ/יהוּדָ֕ה prep + n Proper Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 1:26 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- Numbers 1:27 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were sixty-four thousand six hundred.
- Numbers 2:3 יְהוּדָ֖ה יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper n Proper Those who encamp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah, according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Judah shall be Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 2:9 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
- Numbers 7:12 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper He who offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah,
- Numbers 10:14 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper In the first [place] the standard of the camp of the children of Judah set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
- Numbers 13:6 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
- Numbers 26:19 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 26:20 יְהוּדָה֮ n Proper The sons of Judah after their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.
- Numbers 26:22 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.
- Numbers 34:19 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.
Deuteronomy 3 verses
- Deuteronomy 27:12 וִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה conj + n Proper These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
- Deuteronomy 33:7 לִֽ/יהוּדָה֮ יְהוּדָ֔ה prep + n Proper n Proper This is [the blessing] of Judah: and he said, Hear, Yahweh, the voice of Judah, Bring him in to his people. With his hands he contended for himself; You shall be a help against his adversaries.
- Deuteronomy 34:2 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea,
Joshua 22 verses
- Joshua 7:1 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel.
- Joshua 7:16 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
- Joshua 7:17 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
- Joshua 7:18 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper and he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
- Joshua 11:21 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
- Joshua 14:6 יְהוּדָ֤ה n Proper Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
- Joshua 15:1 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.
- Joshua 15:12 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper The west border was to the great sea, and the border [of it]. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
- Joshua 15:13 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
- Joshua 15:20 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
- Joshua 15:21 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
- Joshua 15:63 יְהוּדָ֖ה יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper n Proper As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
- Joshua 18:5 יְהוּדָ֞ה n Proper They shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.
- Joshua 18:11 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
- Joshua 18:14 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper The border extended [there], and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it were at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
- Joshua 19:1 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
- Joshua 19:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper n Proper Out of the part of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
- Joshua 19:34 וּ/בִ֣/יהוּדָ֔ה conj + prep + n Proper and the border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrise.
- Joshua 20:7 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.
- Joshua 21:4 יְ֠הוּדָה n Proper The lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- Joshua 21:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned by name:
- Joshua 21:11 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper They gave them Kiriath Arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it.
Judges 22 verses
- Judges 1:2 יְהוּדָ֣ה n Proper Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.
- Judges 1:3 יְהוּדָה֩ n Proper Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.
- Judges 1:4 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Judah went up; and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they struck of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
- Judges 1:8 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.
- Judges 1:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
- Judges 1:10 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba); and they struck Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
- Judges 1:16 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper n Proper The children of the Kenite, Moses' brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.
- Judges 1:17 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. The name of the city was called Hormah.
- Judges 1:18 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Also Judah took Gaza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and Ekron with the border of it.
- Judges 1:19 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Yahweh was with Judah; and drove out [the inhabitants of] the hill-country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
- Judges 10:9 בִּ/יהוּדָ֥ה prep + n Proper The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
- Judges 15:9 בִּ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
- Judges 15:10 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
- Judges 15:11 מִֽ/יהוּדָ֗ה prep + n Proper Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
- Judges 17:7 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper n Proper There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
- Judges 17:8 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
- Judges 17:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].
- Judges 18:12 בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper They went up, and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah: therefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, to this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
- Judges 19:1 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
- Judges 19:2 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper His concubine played the prostitute against him, and went away from him to her father's house to Bethlehem Judah, and was there the space of four months.
- Judges 19:18 יְהוּדָה֮ יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper n Proper He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.
- Judges 20:18 יְהוּדָ֥ה n Proper The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.
Ruth 4 verses
- Ruth 1:1 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Ruth 1:2 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
- Ruth 1:7 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper She went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.
- Ruth 4:12 לִֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper and let your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, of the seed which Yahweh shall give you of this young woman.
1 Samuel 14 verses
- 1 Samuel 11:8 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
- 1 Samuel 15:4 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 17:1 לִ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle; and they were gathered together at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
- 1 Samuel 17:12 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken [in years] among men.
- 1 Samuel 17:52 וִ/יהוּדָ֜ה conj + n Proper The men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until you come to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath, and to Ekron.
- 1 Samuel 18:16 וִ/יהוּדָ֔ה conj + n Proper But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
- 1 Samuel 22:5 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper The prophet Gad said to David, Don't stay in the stronghold; depart, and get you into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
- 1 Samuel 23:3 בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה prep + n Proper David's men said to him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?
- 1 Samuel 23:23 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 27:6 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: why Ziklag pertains to the kings of Judah to this day.
- 1 Samuel 27:10 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Achish said, Against whom have you made a raid today? David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.
- 1 Samuel 30:14 לִֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה prep + n Proper We made a raid on the South of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the South of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
- 1 Samuel 30:16 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
- 1 Samuel 30:26 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper When David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:
2 Samuel 26 verses
- 2 Samuel 1:18 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper (and he bade them teach the children of Judah [the song of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
- 2 Samuel 2:1 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? Yahweh said to him, Go up. David said, Where shall I go up? He said, To Hebron.
- 2 Samuel 2:4 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper n Proper The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.
- 2 Samuel 2:7 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be you valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.
- 2 Samuel 2:10 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.
- 2 Samuel 2:11 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
- 2 Samuel 3:8 לִֽ/יהוּדָה֒ prep + n Proper Then was Abner very angry for the words of Ish-bosheth, and said, Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? This day do I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hand of David; and yet you charge me this day with a fault concerning this woman.
- 2 Samuel 3:10 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
- 2 Samuel 5:5 יְהוּדָ֔ה וִ/יהוּדָֽה n Proper conj + n Proper In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 11:11 וִֽ/יהוּדָ֜ה conj + n Proper Uriah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field; shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.
- 2 Samuel 12:8 וִֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה conj + n Proper I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.
- 2 Samuel 19:11 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are you the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, [to bring him] to his house.
- 2 Samuel 19:14 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper He bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as [the heart of] one man; so that they sent to the king, [saying], Return you, and all your servants.
- 2 Samuel 19:15 וִ/יהוּדָ֞ה conj + n Proper So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.
- 2 Samuel 19:16 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
- 2 Samuel 19:40 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper So the king went over to Gilgal, and Chimham went over with him: and all the people of Judah brought the king over, and also half the people of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 19:41 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper Behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said to the king, Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
- 2 Samuel 19:42 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper All the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is a close relative to us: why then are you angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king's cost? or has he given us any gift?
- 2 Samuel 19:43 יְהוּדָ֜ה יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper n Proper The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more [right] in David than you: why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:2 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
- 2 Samuel 20:4 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.
- 2 Samuel 20:5 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper So Amasa went to call [the men of] Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
- 2 Samuel 21:2 וִ/יהוּדָֽה conj + n Proper The king called the Gibeonites, and said to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn to them: and Saul sought to kill them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
- 2 Samuel 24:1 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Again the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.
- 2 Samuel 24:7 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
- 2 Samuel 24:9 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.
1 Kings 39 verses
- 1 Kings 1:9 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Adonijah killed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants:
- 1 Kings 1:35 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne; for he shall be king in my place; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.
- 1 Kings 2:32 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn't know it, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
- 1 Kings 4:20 יְהוּדָ֤ה n Proper Judah and Israel were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
- 1 Kings 4:25 יְהוּדָ֨ה n Proper Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:17 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
- 1 Kings 12:20 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper It happened, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none who followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.
- 1 Kings 12:21 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 12:23 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper n Proper Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
- 1 Kings 12:27 יְהוּדָ֑ה יְהוּדָֽה n Proper n Proper if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 12:32 בִּ/יהוּדָ֗ה prep + n Proper Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar; so did he in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
- 1 Kings 13:1 מִ/יהוּדָ֛ה prep + n Proper Behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Yahweh to Beth El: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
- 1 Kings 13:12 מִ/יהוּדָֽה prep + n Proper Their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.
- 1 Kings 13:14 מִֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה prep + n Proper He went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? He said, I am.
- 1 Kings 13:21 מִֽ/יהוּדָה֙ prep + n Proper and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have been disobedient to the mouth of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
- 1 Kings 14:21 בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess.
- 1 Kings 14:22 יְהוּדָ֛ה n Proper Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.
- 1 Kings 14:29 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 15:1 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:7 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper The rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? There was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 15:9 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:17 יְהוּדָ֔ה יְהוּדָֽה n Proper n Proper Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.
- 1 Kings 15:22 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper Then king Asa made a proclamation to all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber of it, with which Baasha had built; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.
- 1 Kings 15:23 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 15:25 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.
- 1 Kings 15:28 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha kill him, and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 15:33 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] twenty-four years.
- 1 Kings 16:8 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, [and reigned] two years.
- 1 Kings 16:10 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper and Zimri went in and struck him, and killed him, in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his place.
- 1 Kings 16:15 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.
- 1 Kings 16:23 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, [and reigned] twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.
- 1 Kings 16:29 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years.
- 1 Kings 19:3 לִֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה prep + n Proper When he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.
- 1 Kings 22:2 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
- 1 Kings 22:10 יְהוּדָ֡ה n Proper Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were sitting each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
- 1 Kings 22:29 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.
- 1 Kings 22:41 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.
- 1 Kings 22:45 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shown, and how he warred, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 22:51 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
2 Kings 88 verses
- 2 Kings 1:17 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper So he died according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken. Jehoram began to reign in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
- 2 Kings 3:1 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.
- 2 Kings 3:7 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper He went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has rebelled against me: will you go with me against Moab to battle? He said, I will go up: I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
- 2 Kings 3:9 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the animals that followed them.
- 2 Kings 3:14 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Elisha said, As Yahweh of Hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward you, nor see you.
- 2 Kings 8:16 יְהוּדָ֑ה יְהוּדָֽה n Proper n Proper In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.
- 2 Kings 8:19 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper However Yahweh would not destroy Judah, for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give to him a lamp for his children always.
- 2 Kings 8:20 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.
- 2 Kings 8:22 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then did Libnah revolt at the same time.
- 2 Kings 8:23 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 8:25 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.
- 2 Kings 8:29 יְהוּדָ֗ה n Proper King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Kings 9:16 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
- 2 Kings 9:21 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper Joram said, Make ready. They made ready his chariot. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- 2 Kings 9:27 יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled by the way of the garden-house. Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him also in the chariot: [and they struck him] at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. He fled to Megiddo, and died there.
- 2 Kings 9:29 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
- 2 Kings 10:13 יְהוּדָ֔ה n Proper Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.
- 2 Kings 12:18 יְהוּדָ֗ה יְהוּדָה֙ n Proper n Proper Jehoash king of Judah took all the holy things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own holy things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and of the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 12:19 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 13:1 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] seventeen years.
- 2 Kings 13:10 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, [and reigned] sixteen years.
- 2 Kings 13:12 יְהוּדָ֑ה n Proper Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 14:1 יְהוּדָֽה n Proper In the second year of Joash son of Joahaz king of Israel began Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah to reign.
- 2 Kings 14:9 יְהוּדָה֮ n Proper Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son as wife: and there passed by a wild animal that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Kings 14:10 וִ/יהוּדָ֥ה conj + n Proper You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
- 2 Kings 14:11 יְהוּדָ֑ה לִ/יהוּדָֽה n Proper prep + n Proper But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
- 2 Kings 14:12 יְהוּדָ֖ה n Proper Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.
- 2 Kings 14:13 יְהוּדָ֜ה n Proper Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.
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יהודה (Yᵉhûwdâh) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Judah.” Debuting at Genesis 29:35, it then recurs through the corpus. With 754 verses in 33 books, it is one of the most common word in the Hebrew Bible. For the data behind this summary, explore 754-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3063 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 754
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 754 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #56
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 56 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 754 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 165 verses 22%
- 2 Chronicles 145 verses 19%
- 2 Kings 88 verses 12%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 754 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 477 verses · 63%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 232 verses · 31%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 45 verses · 6%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Judah 705×, All judah 24×, Against judah 12×
- American Standard Version: Judah 689×, All judah 22×, Against judah 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Judah 746×, Over judah 21×, Judah’s 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Judah 698×, Against judah 8×, Is to judah 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3063 across 808 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 31 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 10 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3063 across 806 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 52 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3063 across 812 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 22 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3063 across 728 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 9 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- I. n.pr.m.
- 1. son of Jacob and Leah, expl. by Leah’s words I will praise י׳ Gn 29:35 (J); cf. Jacob’s prediction, thy brethren shall praise thee Gn 49:8 (poem in JE), see also v 9, 10; elsewhere Gn 37:26; 38:1 + 14 times Gn 38, 43:3, 8; 44:14, 16, 18; 46:28 (all J), 35:23 (P), 1 Ch 2:1, 3 Ru 4:12; בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה sons of Judah Gn 46:12 Nu 26:19 (P), 1 Ch 2:3, 4; 4:1. e.g. Genesis 29:35
- 2. tribe descended from Judah Dt 33:7 (poem), Nu 1:7 (P), Dt 27:12 +; בְּנֵי יהודה Nu 1:26 (P), Jos 14:6 (D), Ju 1:8 +; שֵׁבֶט יהודה Jos 7:16 (J), 1 K 12:20 2 K 17:18 ψ 78:68; מַטֵּה בְנֵי יהודה Jos 15:1, 20, 21; 21:9 (all P), 1 Ch 6:50; elsewhere מַטֵּה יהודה Ex 31:2; 35:30; 38:22 Nu 1:27; 7:12; 13:6; 34:19 Jos 7:1, 18; 21:4 (all P); אישׁ יהודה Ju 15:10 +; אנשׁי יהודה 2 S 2:4 +, (cf. amelûti [ṣabê] Ia-u-du Tel el-AmarnaNo. 39 JastrJBL xii, 1893, 64). e.g. Deuteronomy 33:7
- 3. nation, of southern kingdom under dynasty of David, as distinguished from northern kingdom of Ephraim or Israel: Ho 4:15 Je 2:28 2 Ch 12:12 +; of the returned exiles Ne 4:4; עַם יהודה 2 K 14:21 = 2 Ch 26:1, Je 25:1, 2 Ezr 4:4; בְּנֵי יהודה Ho 2:2 Je 7:30 2 Ch 13:18; 25:12; 28:10; בֵּית יהודה Ho 1:7 Je 3:18 Ez 4:6 +; מַלְכוּת יהודה 2 Ch 11:17; personified, בַּת י׳ La 1:15; 2:2, 5. e.g. Hosea 4:15
- 4. Levite, Ezra’s time, Ezr 10:23. e.g. Ezra 10:23
- 5. an overseer of Jerus. Ne 11:9. e.g. Nehemiah 11:9
- 6. Levite musician Ne 12:8. e.g. Nehemiah 12:8
- 7. priest Ne 12:36. e.g. Nehemiah 12:36
- II. n.pr.terr. land of Judah, f. Is 7:6 Je 23:6 = 33:16, Jo 4:30 ψ 114:2 +; ארץ יְהוּדֶה 1 S 22:5 2 K 23:24 +; אדמת יהודה Is 19:17; עָרֵי יהודה 2 S 2:1 1 K 12:17 2 K 18:13; 23:5, 8 Is 40:9; 44:26 Zc 1:12 ψ 69:36 La 5:11; also 15 times Chr., 23 times Jer.; בִּיהודה Jos 19:34 Ju 15:9 +; מיהודה 1 K 13:1 +; הר יהודה the hill-country of Judah Jos 11:21 (D), 20:7; 21:11 (P), 2 Ch 27:4; נֶגֶב יהודה the south (country) of Judah 1 S 27:10. 2 S 24:7; מדבר יהודה Ju 1:16 ψ 63:1 (title). e.g. Isaiah 7:6
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.m. et terr. Judah (treated Gn 29:35; 49:8 (q.v. infr.) as if der. from Hoph. of ידה = praised, object of praise (on ה cf. Hiph. אֲהוֹדֶ֑נּוּ ψ 28:7, יְהוֹדֶה Ne 11:17), but this dubious; relation to יְהֻד, ii. יְהוּדִית unexpl.; v. further JastrJBL xii, 1893, 61 ff.; Assyrian Ia-u-du, of land; Ia-u-da-ai, Judaean COTGloss)—
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Derived from ידה (yâdâh) (H3034) — to throw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יְהוּדָה
- (b. h.) pr. n. Judah,
- 1. son of Jacob; tribe of Judah. Pes. 50ᵃ. Yoma 12ᵃ, a. e. מחלקו של י׳ from the area of Judah.—Gen. R. s. 85; a. v. fr.
- 2. name of several Tannaim; a) R. J. b. B’thera in Babylonia Ber. 22ᵃ; a. fr.—b) J. b. Tabbai, chief of the Sanhedrin in the days of queen Salome. Ab. I, 8. Ḥag. II, 2; a. fr.—c) R. J. the priest. Eduy. VIII, 3.—d) R. J. b. Baba. Ib. 2. Sabb. 62ᵇ; a. fr.—e) R. J. b. Ilai, usu. mentioned in the Mishnah as R. J. only. Ber. 63ᵇ; Sabb. 33ᵇ. Men. 103ᵇ; a. v. fr.—f) R. J. b. Tema. Ab. V, 20. Erub. 17ᵃ; Tosef. ib. III (II), 6 (ed. Zuck. בתירה). Tosef. Gitt. VII (V), 8; a. fr.; a. others (v. Fr. Darkhé, p. 42; p. 137).—Esp. R. J. han-Nasi I a. II, surnamed Rabbi, v. רַבִּי.
- 3. name of several Amoraim, the most renowned of whom is R. J. (b. Ezekiel), a Babylonian. Keth. 110ᵇ bot.—Y. Taan. I, 64ᵇ top; a. fr.—V. Fr. M’bo p. 91ᵃ
- 4. Judaea, the southern province of Palestine. Keth. I, 5 (12ᵃ); Tosef. ib. I, 4. Kidd. 6ᵃ; a. v. fr.
יוּדָה
- Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ bot.; a. fr.—V. Frank. M’bo, p. 92ᵃ, sq. V. יוּדָן.
יוּדָן
- q. v. Y. Ber. III, 6ᵃ bot., a. fr. ר׳ י׳ נשייא R. J. (II), the Nasi; (V. Fr. M’bo p. 92ᵃ, sq.).—Pesik. R. s. 14 ר׳ י׳.—Gen. R. s. 10 אבא י׳ (abbr. אַבְדָּן q. v.).—Y. Ber. II, 5ᵃ top. Ib. IX, 14ᵃ top; a. v. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 84 distinct written forms H3063 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Amos 2:4 | 146 |
| יְהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Amos 7:12 | 111 |
| יְהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 8:1 | 95 |
| יְהוּדָֽה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 31:2 | 88 |
| יְהוּדָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 9:7 | 67 |
| יְהוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:1 | 65 |
| יְהוּדָ֛ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 38:2 | 25 |
| יְהוּדָ֜ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 38:20 | 23 |
| יְהוּדָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 44:14 | 11 |
| בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 12:12 | 9 |
| יְהוּדָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:23 | 9 |
| בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Amos 2:5 | 6 |
| וִ/יהוּדָֽה | Noun, Proper | Exodus 1:2 | 6 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 27:12 | 6 |
| יְהוּדָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 21:20 | 6 |
| יְהוּדָה֩ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:9 | 6 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 19:3 | 6 |
| יְ֠הוּדָה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 30:24 | 5 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 1:5 | 5 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָֽה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:5 | 4 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָה֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 9:9 | 4 |
| יְהוּדָ֕ה | Noun, Proper | Hosea 6:11 | 4 |
| יְהוּדָה֮ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 25:18 | 4 |
| בִֽ/יהוּדָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 28:4 | 3 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 1:3 | 3 |
| בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 9:9 | 3 |
| בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 2:7 | 3 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 36:8 | 3 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 2:1 | 3 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Hosea 11:12 | 3 |
| יְהוּדָ֞ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:28 | 3 |
| יְהוּדָ֧ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 19:1 | 3 |
| יְהוּדָה֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 31:1 | 3 |
| לִ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:14 | 3 |
| לִ/יהוּדָֽה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 1:8 | 3 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 37:16 | 3 |
| בִ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:17 | 2 |
| בִֽ/יהוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 32:1 | 2 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 12:32 | 2 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:3 | 2 |
| בִּֽ/יהוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:6 | 2 |
| וִ/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 2:1 | 2 |
| וִ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 3:8 | 2 |
| וִ/יהוּדָ֥ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 25:19 | 2 |
| וִֽ/יהוּדָ֕ה | Noun, Proper | Hosea 8:14 | 2 |
| וּ/בִ֣/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 24:20 | 2 |
| יְ֝הוּדָ֗ה | Noun, Proper | Psalms 60:7 | 2 |
| יְהוּדָ֡ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 22:10 | 2 |
| יְהוּדָ֨ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 4:25 | 2 |
| לִ/יהוּדָ֑ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 13:6 | 2 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָ֕ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 27:18 | 2 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 30:14 | 2 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָ֤ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 38:24 | 2 |
| לִֽ/יהוּדָה֒ | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 28:18 | 2 |
| מִ/יהוּדָֽה | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 13:12 | 2 |
| מִֽ/יהוּדָ֔ה | Noun, Proper | Genesis 49:10 | 2 |
| מִֽ/יהוּדָה֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 13:21 | 2 |
| בִֽ/יהוּדָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Nehemiah 13:15 | 1 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָ֖ה | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 11:10 | 1 |
| בִּ/יהוּדָ֣ה | Noun, Proper | Ezra 10:7 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 24 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3063, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- ידו Yiddôw H3035 Iddo
- ידון Yâdôwn H3036 Jadon
- ידותון Yᵉdûwthûwn H3038 Jeduthun
- ידיה Yᵉdâyâh H3042 Jedaiah
- Ιουδα Ioudá G2448 Judah
- Ιουδας Ioúdas G2455 Judas
- יהוד Yᵉhûwd H3061 Judah
- יהודי Yᵉhûwdîy H3064 Jew
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 8 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Judah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Praise, the fourth son of Jacob by Leah. The name originated in Leah's words of praise to the Lord on account of his birth: "Now will I praise [Heb. odeh] Jehovah, and she called his name Yehudah" (Gen. 29:35).
It was Judah that interposed in behalf of Joseph, so that his life was spared (Gen. 37:26, 27). He took a lead in the affairs of the family, and "prevailed above his brethren" (Gen. 43:3-10; 44:14, 16-34; 46:28; 1 Chr. 5:2).
Soon after the sale of Joseph to the Ishmaelites, Judah went to reside at Adullam, where he married a woman of Canaan. (See ONAN; TAMAR.) After the death of his wife Shuah, he returned to his father's house, and there exercised much influence over the patriarch, taking a principal part in the events which led to the whole family at length going down into Egypt. We hear nothing more of him till he received his father's blessing (Gen. 49:8-12).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(praised, celebrated), the fourth son of Jacob and the fourth of Leah. (B.C. after 1753.) Of Judah's personal character more traits are preserved than of any other of the patriarchs, with the exception of Joseph, whose life he in conjunction with Reuben saved. (Genesis 37:26-28) During the second visit to Egypt for corn it was Judah who understood to be responsible for the safety of Benjamin, ch. (Genesis 43:3-10) and when, through Joseph's artifice, the brothers were brought back to the palace, he is again the leader and spokesman of the band. So too it is Judah who is sent before Jacob to smooth the way for him in the land of Goshen. ch. (Genesis 46:28) This ascendancy over his brethren is reflected in the last words addressed to him by his father. The families of Judah occupy a position among the tribes similar to that which their progenitor had taken among the patriarchs. The numbers of the tribe at the census at Sinai were 74,600. (Numbers 1:26,27) On the borders of the promised land they were 76,500. (Genesis 26:22) The boundaries and contents of the territory allotted to Judah are narrated at great length, and with greater minuteness than the others, in (Joshua 15:20-63) The north boundary, for the most part coincident with the south boundary of Benjamin, began at the embouchure of the Jordan and ended on the west at Jabneel on the coast of the Mediterranean, four miles south of Joppa. On the east the Dead Sea, and on the west the Mediterranean, formed the boundaries. The southern line is hard to determine, since it is denoted by places many of which have not been identified. It left the Dead Sea at its extreme south end, and joined the Mediterranean at the Wady el-Arish. This territory is in average length about 45 miles, and in average breadth about 50.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
the praise of the Lord; confession
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 680 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 754 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 29:35
- Exodus 1:2
- Numbers 1:7
- Deuteronomy 27:12
- Joshua 7:1
- Judges 1:2
- Ruth 1:1
- 1 Samuel 11:8
- 2 Samuel 1:18
- 1 Kings 1:9
- 2 Kings 1:17
- 1 Chronicles 2:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
