Senses
1. Judah (proper noun) — The proper noun Yehudah/Judah, referring to the patriarch (fourth son of Jacob), the tribe descended from him, or the southern kingdom of Judah, with all grammatical variations (prepositional and conjunctive prefixes) representing the same lexical identity. 819×
AR["يَهُوذا","يَهُوذَا"]·ben["যিহূদা","যিহূদার"]·DE["Jehuda","Jehudas"]·EN["Judah"]·FR["Juda"]·heb["יהודה"]·HI["यहूदा","यहूदा-का","यहूदा-की","यहूदा-ने"]·ID["Yehuda"]·IT["Giuda"]·jav["Yehuda","Yéhuda"]·KO["유다가","유다라","유다에게","유다의"]·PT["Yehudah"]·RU["Иуда","Иуде","Иуды"]·ES["Yehudah"]·SW["Yuda"]·TR["Yahuda","Yahuda'nın","Yahuda'ya","Yehuda"]·urd["یہوداہ","یہوداہ-نے","یہوداہ-کا","یہوداہ-کی","یہوداہ-کے"]
BDB / Lexicon Reference
יְהוּדָה820 n.pr.m. et terr. Judah (treated Gn 29:35; 49:8 (q.v. infr.) as if der. from Hoph. of ידה = praised, object of praise (on ה cf. Hiph. אֲהוֹדֶ֑נּוּ ψ 28:7, יְהוֹדֶה Ne 11:17), but this dubious; relation to יְהֻד, ii. יְהוּדִית unexpl.; v. further JastrJBL xii, 1893, 61 ff.; Assyrian Ia-u-du, of land; Ia-u-da-ai, Judaean COTGloss)— I. n.pr.m. 1. son of Jacob and Leah, expl. by Leah’s…