yehuda · Judah

What it means

yehuda (יְהוּדָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Judah”.

The fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×28
• Exodus×4
• Numbers×13
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×24
• Judges×25
• Ruth×4
• 1 Samuel×14
• 2 Samuel×29
• 1 Kings×42
• 2 Kings×95
• 1 Chronicles×24
• 2 Chronicles×161
• Ezra×13
• Nehemiah×28
• Esther×1
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×29
• Jeremiah×183
• Lamentations×5
• Ezekiel×15
• Daniel×4
• Hosea×15
• Joel×6
• Amos×4
• Obadiah×1
• Micah×4
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×3
• Haggai×4
• Zechariah×22
• Malachi×3

• Genesis 29:35

  She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “This time I will give thanks to YHWH.” That is why she called his name Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

• Genesis 35:23

  The sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

• Genesis 37:26

  Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

• Genesis 38:1

  It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a man, an Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

• Genesis 38:2

  There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man whose name was Shua; he took her and went in to her.

• Genesis 38:6

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

• Genesis 38:7

  But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the eyes of YHWH, and YHWH put him to death.

• Genesis 38:8

  Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”

• Genesis 38:11

  Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until Shelah my son grows up”; for he said to himself, “Lest he too die like his brothers.” So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.

• Genesis 38:12

  Many days passed, and the daughter of Shua, Judah’s wife, died; and when Judah was comforted, he went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and Hirah his friend the Adullamite.

• Genesis 38:15

  Judah saw her and thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

• Genesis 38:20

  Judah sent the young goat by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he did not find her.

• Genesis 38:22

  He returned to Judah and said, “I did not find her; and also the men of the place said, ‘There has been no sacred prostitute here.’”

• Genesis 38:23

  Judah said, “Let her take the things for herself, lest we become a laughingstock. Look, I sent this young goat, but you did not find her.”

• Genesis 38:24

  About three months later Judah was told, saying, “Tamar your daughter-in-law has prostituted herself, and moreover, look, she is pregnant by prostitution.” And Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

• Genesis 38:26

  Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he did not again know her.

• Genesis 43:3

  Judah said to him, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

• Genesis 43:8

  Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the young man with me, and we will get up and go, so that we may live and not die, both we and you and our little ones.

• Genesis 44:14

  Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there; and they fell before him to the ground.

• Genesis 44:16

  Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? And how shall we declare ourselves righteous? Elohim has found out the iniquity of your servants. Here we are, slaves to my lord, both we and the one in whose hand the cup was found.”

• Genesis 44:18

  Then Judah approached him and said, “Please, my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and do not let your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh.

• Genesis 46:12

  The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

• Genesis 46:28

  He sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to show the way before him to Goshen; and they came to the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 49:8

  Judah, you your brothers will praise; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; the sons of your father will bow down to you.

• Genesis 49:9

  A lion’s cub is Judah; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness; who dares rouse him?

• Genesis 49:10

  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him will be the obedience of the peoples.

• Exodus 1:2

  Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

• Exodus 31:2

  “See, I have called by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

• Exodus 35:30

  And Moses said to the sons of Israel, “See, YHWH has called by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

• Exodus 38:22

  And Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 1:7

  from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab;

• Numbers 1:26

  Of the sons of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:27

  those of them counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

• Numbers 2:3

  Those who camp on the east side, toward the sunrise, shall be the banner of the camp of Judah by their armies; and the chief of the sons of Judah is Nahshon son of Amminadab,

• Numbers 2:9

  All those counted of the camp of Judah are one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, by their armies. They shall set out first.

• Numbers 7:12

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

• Numbers 10:14

  And the banner of the camp of the sons of Judah set out first by their armies, and over its army was Nahshon son of Amminadab.

• Numbers 13:6

  of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

• Numbers 26:19

  The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.

• Numbers 26:20

  And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Perezites; of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

And 779 more times.