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Lexicon :: Strong's H3063 - yᵊhûḏâ

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יְהוּדָה
Transliteration
yᵊhûḏâ
Pronunciation
yeh-hoo-daw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 850c

Strong’s Definitions

יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh, yeh-hoo-daw'; from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:—Judah.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 818x

The KJV translates Strong's H3063 in the following manner: Judah (808x), Bethlehemjudah (with H1035) (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 818x
The KJV translates Strong's H3063 in the following manner: Judah (808x), Bethlehemjudah (with H1035) (10x).
  1. Judah = "praised"

    1. the son of Jacob by Leah

    2. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob

    3. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah

    4. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh, yeh-hoo-daw'; from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:—Judah.
STRONGS H3063: Abbreviations
יְהוּדָה 820 proper name, masculine and of a territory Judah (treated Genesis 29:35; Genesis 49:8 (which see below) as if derived from Hoph. of ידה = praised, object of praise (on ה compare Hiph. אֲהוֺדֶ֑נּוּ Psalm 28:7, יְהוֺדֶה Nehemiah 11:17), but this dubious; relation to יְהֻד, II. יְהוּדִית : unexplained; see further JastrJBL xii, 1898, 61 ff.; Assyrian Ia-u-du, of land; Ia-u-da-ai, Judaean COTGloss) —
I. proper name, masculine
1. son of Jacob and Leah, explained by Leah's words I will praise י׳ Genesis 29:35 (J); compare Jacob's prediction, thy brethren shall praise thee Genesis 49:8 (poem in J E), see also Genesis 49:9; Genesis 49:10; elsewhere Genesis 37:26; Genesis 38:1 + 14 times Genesis 38; Genesis 43:3, 8; Genesis 44:14, 16, 18; Genesis 46:28 (all J), Genesis 35:23 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:1, 3; Ruth 4:12; בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה sons of Judah Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:19 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:3, 4; 1 Chronicles 4:1.
2. tribe descended from Judah Deuteronomy 33:7 (poem), Numbers 1:7 (P), Deuteronomy 27:12 +; בְּנֵי יהודה Numbers 1:26; Joshua 14:6 (D), Judges 1:8 +; שֵׁבֶט יהודה Joshua 7:16 (J), 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 17:18; Psalm 78:68; מַטֵּה בְנֵי יהודה Joshua 15:1, 20, 21; Joshua 21:9 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:50; elsewhere מַטֵּה יהודה Exodus 31:2; Exodus 35:30; Exodus 38:22; Numbers 1:27; Numbers 7:12; Numbers 13:6; Numbers 34:19; Joshua 7:1, 18; Joshua 21:4 (all P); אישׁ יהודה Judges 15:20 +; אנשׁי יהודה 2 Samuel 2:4 +, (compare amelûti [ṣabê] Ia-u-du Tel el-AmarnaNo. 39 JastrJBL xii, 1893, 64).
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 +; of the returned exiles Nehemiah 4:4; עַם יהודה 2 Kings 14:21 2 Chronicles 26:1; Jeremiah 25:1, 2; Ezra 4:4; בְּנֵי יהודה Hosea 2:2; Jeremiah 7:30; 2 Chronicles 13:18; 25:12; 28:10; בֵּית יהודה Hosea 1:7; Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 4:6 +; מַלְכוּת יהודה 2 Chronicles 11:17; personified, בַּת י׳ Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 2:2, 5.
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. proper name, of a territory land of Judah, feminine Isaiah 7:6; Jeremiah 23:6 = Jeremiah 33:16; Jo 4:30; Psalm 114:2 +; ארץ יְהוּדָה 1 Samuel 22:5; 2 Kings 23:24 +; אדמת יהודה Isaiah 19:17; עָרֵי יהודה 2 Samuel 2:1; 1 Kings 12:17; 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 23:5, 8; Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 44:26; Zechariah 1:12; Psalm 69:36; Lamentations 5:11; elsewhere + 15 times Chronicles, + 23 times Jeremiah; בִּיהודה Judges 15:9 +; מיהודה 1 Kings 13:1 +; הר יהודה the hill-country of Judah Joshua 11:21(D), Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:11 (P), 2 Chronicles 27:4; נֶגֶב יהודה the south (country) of Judah 1 Samuel 27:10; 2 Samuel 24:7; מדבר יהודה Judges 1:16; Psalm 63:1 (title).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3061.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:35; 29:35; 35:23; 37:26; 38; 38:1; 43:3; 43:8; 44:14; 44:16; 44:18; 46:12; 46:28; 49:8; 49:8; 49:9; 49:10

Exodus

31:2; 35:30; 38:22

Numbers

1:7; 1:26; 1:27; 7:12; 13:6; 26:19; 34:19

Deuteronomy

27:12; 33:7

Joshua

7:1; 7:16; 7:18; 11:21; 14:6; 15:1; 15:20; 15:21; 20:7; 21:4; 21:9; 21:11

Judges

1:8; 1:16; 15:9; 15:20

Ruth

4:12

1 Samuel

22:5; 27:10

2 Samuel

2:1; 2:4; 24:7

1 Kings

12:17; 12:20; 13:1

2 Kings

14:21; 17:18; 18:13; 23:5; 23:8; 23:24

1 Chronicles

2:1; 2:3; 2:3; 2:4; 4:1; 6:50

2 Chronicles

11:17; 12:12; 13:18; 25:12; 26:1; 27:4; 28:10

Ezra

4:4; 10:23

Nehemiah

4:4; 11:9; 11:17; 12:8; 12:36

Psalms

28:7; 63:1; 69:36; 78:68; 114:2

Isaiah

7:6; 19:17; 40:9; 44:26

Jeremiah

2:28; 3:18; 7:30; 23:6; 25:1; 25:2; 33:16

Lamentations

1:15; 2:2; 2:5; 5:11

Ezekiel

4:6

Hosea

1:7; 2:2; 4:15

Zechariah

1:12

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3063 matches the Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yᵊhûḏâ),
which occurs 819 times in 754 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 16 (Gen 29:35–Jos 11:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 -

And she conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” Therefore she named him Judah.[fn] Then Leah stopped having children.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 -

Leah’s sons were Reuben (Jacob’s firstborn),

Simeon, Levi, Judah,

Issachar, and Zebulun.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 -

Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 -

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2 -

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:6 -

Judah got a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 -

Now Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the LORD’s sight, and the LORD put him to death.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 -

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and produce offspring for your brother.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 -

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 -

After a long time[fn] Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had finished mourning, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15 -

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 -

When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 -

So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, “I couldn’t find her, and besides, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’ ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23 -

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 -

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out,” Judah said, “and let her be burned to death! ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 -

Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right[fn] than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not know her intimately again.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 -

But Judah said to him, “The man specifically warned us, ‘You will not see me again unless your brother is with you.’

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 -

Then Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me. We will be on our way so that we may live and not die ​— ​neither we, nor you, nor our dependents.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 -

When Judah and his brothers reached Joseph’s house, he was still there. They fell to the ground before him.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 -

“What can we say to my lord? ” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants’ iniquity. We are now my lord’s slaves ​— ​both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 -

But Judah approached him and said, “My lord, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 -

Judah’s sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:28 -

Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to prepare for his arrival[fn] at Goshen. When they came to the land of Goshen,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 -

“Judah, your brothers will praise you.

Your hand will be on the necks of your enemies;

your father’s sons will bow down to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 -

“Judah is a young lion —

my son, you return from the kill.

He crouches; he lies down like a lion

or a lioness ​— ​who dares to rouse him?

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 -

“The scepter will not depart from Judah

or the staff from between his feet

until he whose right it is comes[fn]

and the obedience of the peoples belongs to him.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 -

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:2 -

“Look, I have appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 -

Moses then said to the Israelites, “Look, the LORD has appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:22 -

Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything that the LORD commanded Moses.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:7 -

“Nahshon son of Amminadab from Judah;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 -

The descendants of Judah: according to their family records by their clans and their ancestral families, counting the names of those twenty years old or more, everyone who could serve in the army,

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 -

those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 -

“Judah’s military divisions will camp on the east side toward the sunrise under their banner. The leader of the descendants of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 -

“The total number in their military divisions who belong to Judah’s encampment is 186,400; they will move out first.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:12 -

The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 -

The military divisions of the camp of Judah’s descendants with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab was over their divisions.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:6 -

Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 -

Judah’s sons included Er and Onan, but they died in the land of Canaan.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 -

Judah’s descendants by their clans:

the Shelanite clan from Shelah;

the Perezite clan from Perez;

the Zerahite clan from Zerah.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 -

These were Judah’s clans numbered by their registered men: 76,500.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:19 -

“These are the names of the men:

Caleb son of Jephunneh from the tribe of Judah;

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12 -

“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:7 -

He said this about Judah:

LORD, hear Judah’s cry and bring him to his people.

He fights for his cause[fn] with his own hands,

but may you be a help against his foes.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2 -

all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean[fn] Sea,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 -

The Israelites, however, were unfaithful regarding the things set apart for destruction. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart, and the LORD’s anger burned against the Israelites.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 -

Joshua got up early the next morning. He had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 -

He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the Zerahite clan was selected. He had the Zerahite clan come forward by heads of families,[fn] and Zabdi was selected.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:18 -

He then had Zabdi’s family come forward man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 -

At that time Joshua proceeded to exterminate the Anakim from the hill country ​— ​Hebron, Debir, Anab ​— ​all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them with their cities.


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