yehudai · Jew

What it means

yehudai (יְהוּדָאִי) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “Jew”.

(Aramaic): a person of Judah.

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.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone of the people of Judah, of those exiled in Babylon and of those who returned.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Jews ×9
• certain Jewish ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Ezra×8
• Daniel×2

• Ezra 4:12

  let it be known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us, to Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and wicked city, and they are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.

• Ezra 4:23

  Then, as soon as the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them cease by force and with troops.

• Ezra 5:1

  And Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, the prophets, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and in Jerusalem, in the name of the Elah of Israel, who was over them.

• Ezra 5:5

  But the eye of their Elah was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease until the report should go to Darius and then they should return a letter about this.

• Ezra 6:7

  Leave the work of that house of Elah alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build that house of Elah on its site.

• Ezra 6:8

  And by me an order is given concerning what you shall do with these elders of the Jews for the building of that house of Elah: from the goods of the king, which are from the tribute of the other side of the river, with diligence let the cost be paid to these men, so that there be no stoppage.

• Ezra 6:14

  And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built and finished by the order of the Elah of Israel and by the order of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

• Daniel 3:8

  Because of this, at that time, certain Chaldean men came forward and accused the Jews.

• Daniel 3:12

  There are certain Jewish men whom you appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men have paid no attention to you, O king; your gods they do not serve, and to the image of gold that you set up they do not bow down.”

And 1 more times.