1. Judas / Judah (proper name) — The proper name Ioudas (Judas/Judah), used in the NT for multiple individuals: Judas Iscariot the betrayer, Judas son of James (apostle), Judas brother of Jesus, Judas of Galilee (Acts 5:37), Judas called Barsabbas (Acts 15:22), Judas of Damascus (Acts 9:11), and the patriarch Judah in genealogies. All 37 occurrences share the same lexical form. Multilingual evidence is consistent across clusters: Hindi 'yahuda', Arabic 'yahudha', Korean 'yudaga/yuda-ui', Swahili 'Yuda/Ioudas', Spanish 'Ioudas'. The two clusters differ only in frequency and minor case distribution (genitive-only vs. full paradigm), representing inflectional variation of one proper noun. 37×
AR["وَ-يَهُوذَا","يا-يَهوذا","يَهوذا","يَهُوذَا"]·ben["যিহূদা","যিহূদার"]·DE["Judas"]·EN["Ioudas"]·FR["Judas"]·heb["יְהוּדָה"]·HI["इओउदस","और","यहूदा","यहूदा-को","यहूदा-ने"]·ID["Yehuda","Yudas"]·IT["Giuda"]·jav["Yudas","Yudas,","Yudas?","Yéhuda"]·KO["유다","유다-가","유다-는","유다-를","유다가","유다를","유다야","유다에게","유다와"]·PT["Judas","Judá"]·RU["Иуда","Иуду","Иуды"]·ES["Iouda","Ioudas","Ioúdan","Ioúdas","Ioúdas?","a-Ioúdas"]·SW["Ioudas","Ioúdas","Yuda"]·TR["Yahuda","Yahuda'nın","Yahuda'yı","Yahudaya"]·urd["شمعون","یعقوب","یہوداہ","یہوداہ-نے","یہوداہ-کو"]
Matt 1:2, Matt 1:3, Matt 10:4, Matt 13:55, Matt 26:14, Matt 26:25, Matt 26:47, Matt 27:3, Mark 3:19, Mark 6:3, Mark 14:10, Mark 14:43 (+25 more)
Senses
BDB / Lexicon Reference
Ἰούδας, -α dative -ᾳ, accusative -αν (so in LXX, and also rarely, Ἰουδά, indecl.; cf. Thack., Gr., 163) (Heb. יְהוּדָה) __1. Judah, son of Jacob: Mat.1:2-3, Luk.3:33; φυλή Ἰ., Rev.5:5 7:5; by meton., of the tribe, Heb.7:14; of its confines, γῆ Ἰ., Mat.2:6;πόλις Ἰ., Luk.1:39. __2. Judah (unknown): Luk.3:30. __3. Judas Iscariot (see: Ἰσκαριώτης): Mat.10:4, Mrk.3:19, Luk.6:16, Jhn.6:71 13:2, al.…