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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.
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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 3 / 16 (1Sa 23:3–1Ki 14:22)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:3 - But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah H3063. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the battle lines of the Philistines?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - “So see and know about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah H3063.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:6 - So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah H3063 to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:10 - And Achish said, “Where have you made a raid today?” And David said, “Against the [fn]Negev of Judah H3063 and against the [fn]Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the [fn]Negev of the Kenites.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:14 - “We made a raid on the [fn]Negev of the Cherethites and on that which belongs to Judah H3063 and on the [fn]Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:16 -

So he brought him down, and behold, they were [fn]spread over all the land, eating and drinking and [fn]celebrating because of all the great spoil that they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah H3063.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:26 -

Then David came to Ziklag and sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah H3063, to his friends, saying, “Behold, a [fn]gift for you from the spoil of the enemies of Yahweh:

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:18 - and he told them to teach the sons of Judah H3063 the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:1 -

Now it happened afterwards that David asked of Yahweh, saying, “Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah H3063?” And Yahweh said to him, “Go up.” So David said, “Where shall I go up?” And He said, “To Hebron.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:4 - Then the men of Judah H3063 came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah H3063.

And they told David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:7 - “So now, let your hands be strong and be [fn]valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah H3063 has anointed me king over them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:10 - Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was king for two years. The house of Judah H3063, however, followed David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 2:11 - And the [fn]time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah H3063 was seven years and six months.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:8 - Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah H3063? Today I show lovingkindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:10 - to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah H3063, from Dan even to Beersheba.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:5 - At Hebron he reigned over Judah H3063 seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah H3063.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:11 - And Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah H3063 are staying in [fn]booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I will not do this thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:8 - ‘I also gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your [fn]care, and I gave you the house of Israel and Judah H3063; and if that had been too little, I would have added to you many more things like these!
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:11 -

Now King David had sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, “Speak to the elders of Judah H3063, saying, ‘Why are you the last to have the king return to his house, while the word of all Israel has come to the king, even to his house?

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:14 - Thus he inclined the hearts of all the men of Judah H3063 as one man, so they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:15 - The king then returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah H3063 came to Gilgal in order to go to meet the king, to cause the king to pass over across the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:16 -

Then Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah H3063 to meet King David.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:40 -

Now the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah H3063 and also half the people of Israel [fn]accompanied the king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:41 - And behold, all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, “Why had our brothers the men of Judah H3063 stolen you away, and caused the king and his household and all David’s men with him to pass over the Jordan?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:42 - Then all the men of Judah H3063 answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to [fn]us. Why then [fn]are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense, or has [fn]anything been taken for us?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:43 - But the men of Israel answered the men of Judah H3063 and said, “[fn]We have ten parts in the king, therefore [fn]we also have more claim on David than you. Why then did you treat us with contempt? Was it not [fn]our word first to have [fn]our king return?” Yet the words of the men of Judah H3063 were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:2 -

So all the men of Israel went up from following David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah H3063 clung to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:4 -

Then the king said to Amasa, “Call out the men of Judah H3063 for me within three days, and you yourself stand here.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 20:5 - So Amasa went to call out the men of Judah H3063, but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel [fn]made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to strike them down in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah H3063).
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:1 -

And again the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah H3063.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:7 - and came to the fortified city of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites, and they went out to the south of Judah H3063, to Beersheba.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:9 - And Joab gave the total count of the [fn]census of the people to the king; and there were in Israel 800,000 valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah H3063 were 500,000 men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:9 -

And Adonijah sacrificed sheep and oxen and fatlings by the [fn]stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he invited all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah H3063, the king’s servants.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:35 - “Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne. And he shall be king in my place; for I have commanded him to be ruler over Israel and Judah H3063.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - “And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah H3063.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:20 -

Judah H3063 and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the [fn]seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and being glad.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:25 - So Judah H3063 and Israel lived in security, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:17 - But as for the sons of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah H3063, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:20 -

Now it happened when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, that they sent and called him to the congregation and made him king over all Israel. None but the tribe of Judah H3063 followed the house of David.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:21 -

Then Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled all the house of Judah H3063 and the tribe of Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who could wage war, to fight against the house of Israel to return the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23 - “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah H3063, and to all the house of Judah H3063 and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:27 - “If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will return to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah H3063; and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah H3063.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:32 - And Jeroboam made a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is in Judah H3063, and he [fn]went up to the altar; thus he did in Bethel, to sacrifice to the calves which he had made. And he had the priests of the high places, which he had made, stand in Bethel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:1 -

Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah H3063 to Bethel by the word of Yahweh, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:12 - And their father said to them, “[fn]Which way did he go?” And his sons [fn]had seen the way which the man of God who came from Judah H3063 had gone.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:14 - So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under [fn]an oak; and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah H3063?” And he said, “I am.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:21 - and he called out to the man of God who came from Judah H3063, saying, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Because you have rebelled against the [fn]word of Yahweh, and have not kept the commandment which Yahweh your God commanded you,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:21 -

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon became king in Judah H3063. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:22 - And Judah H3063 did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and they provoked Him to jealousy more than all that their fathers had done, with [fn]the sins which they sinned.

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