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יְהוּדָה820 H3063
Conj-w | N-proper-fs  |  819× in 1 sense
Judah — the patriarch, the tribe descended from him, or the southern kingdom bearing his name
Yehudah is one of the most historically layered names in Scripture. At Leah's declaration 'this time I will praise the LORD' (Gen 29:35), the name became bound to thanksgiving. From that fourth son of Jacob grew an entire tribe and eventually the southern kingdom that outlasted its northern counterpart. The name appears 819 times across the Hebrew Bible, spanning patriarchal narratives, tribal allotments, royal chronicles, and prophetic oracles. Cross-linguistically, the name is remarkably stable — English 'Judah,' Spanish 'Yehudah,' French 'Juda,' German 'Jehuda' — reflecting its status as an irreducible proper noun anchored in covenant history.
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Senses
1. Judah (proper noun) — The proper name Yehudah, applied to Jacob's fourth son by Leah (Gen 29:35), the tribe that bore his name and received the royal blessing (Gen 49:8-10), and the southern kingdom centered on Jerusalem. All 819 occurrences, including prepositional and conjunctive variants, refer to this single referent across its personal, tribal, and geo-political dimensions. 819×
DISCOURSE_NAMES › Names of Persons and Places › Judah Judas Name
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"]
Gen 29:35, Gen 37:26, Gen 38:1, Gen 38:2, Gen 38:6, Gen 38:7, Gen 38:8, Gen 38:11, Gen 38:12, Gen 38:12, Gen 38:15, Gen 38:20  (+38 more)
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
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…