H3064 H3064
Jew, Jewish person; gentilic adjective and substantive denoting a member of the people of Judah
Derived from the tribal and territorial name Judah, this gentilic term identifies a person as belonging to the Jewish people. In earlier texts it distinguishes Judahites from other Israelites, but by the Persian period — especially in Esther and Nehemiah — it functions as the primary ethnic and communal label for the post-exilic community. Zechariah 8:23 envisions nations grasping the garment of a single Jewish man, while Esther deploys the term over sixty times as the people face existential threat and deliverance. The multilingual evidence is remarkably uniform: Spanish los judios, French Juif, German Jude all reflect the stable ethnic-identity sense.
Senses
1. Jew, Jewish person — Designates a person of Jewish identity, used as both a gentilic adjective (ish yehudi, 'a Jewish man,' Zech 8:23) and a substantive noun in singular and plural. In Nehemiah and Esther the term serves as the standard communal label for the post-exilic people, carrying strong connotations of covenant solidarity. Translations across languages converge on a single ethnic-identity rendering. 81×
AR["(الْيَهُودُ)", "(الْيَهُودِ)", "الْيَهودَ", "الْيَهودِ", "الْيَهُودَ", "الْيَهُودُ", "الْيَهُودِ"]·ben["(-ইহুদীদের)", "(-ইহুদীরা)", "-ইহুদীদের", "যিহূদীদের", "যিহূদীরা"]·DE["Jude"]·EN["the-Jews", "the-Yehudim"]·FR["Juif"]·heb["ה-(היהודים)", "ה-יהודים"]·HI["यहूदियों", "यहूदियों-का", "यहूदियों-के", "यहूदियों-को", "यहूदी"]·ID["orang-Yahudi", "orang-orang-Yahudi", "orang-orang-Yahudi-itu"]·IT["Giudeo"]·jav["tiyang-Yahudi"]·KO["그-유다인들", "그-유다인들보다", "그-유다인들을", "그-유다인들의", "그-유다인들이", "그-유대사람들", "그-유대인들에", "그-유대인들에게", "그-유대인들을", "그-유대인들의", "그-유대인들이"]·PT["os-judeus"]·RU["Иудеев", "Иудеям", "Иудеях", "иудеев", "иудеи", "иудеями", "иудеях"]·ES["(los-judíos)", "los-judíos"]·SW["Wayahudi", "na-kama-lugha-yao", "na-kwa", "tayari", "wa-Wayahudi", "wote"]·TR["Yahudiler", "Yahudiler'e", "Yahudiler'in", "Yahudiler-", "Yahudilere-", "Yahudileri", "Yahudileri-", "Yahudilerin", "Yahudilerin-"]·urd["یہودی", "یہودی-کے", "یہودیوں", "یہودیوں-کی", "یہودیوں-کے", "یہودیوں-کے-خلاف"]
Related Senses
H5971a 1. people, nation (1836×)H5973a 1. accompaniment, together with (956×)H0854 1. with (accompaniment) (665×)H1471a 1. nations, peoples (plural/collective) (466×)G3326 1. with (368×)H1285 1. covenant, pact, treaty (284×)G2453 1. Jewish person, Jew (194×)H4150 1. meeting (tent of meeting) (151×)G2992 1. people/nation (an ethnic or political community) (142×)G4862 1. (129×)G1484 1. Gentiles, non-Jewish nations (128×)H1471a 2. nation, people-group (singular) (98×)H3162b 1. together (97×)H1616 1. sojourner, resident alien (92×)H0567 1. Amorite (people group) (87×)H3669a 1. Canaanite (ethnic designation) (70×)G1122 1. scribe / expert in the Law (63×)H2114a 1. stranger, foreigner (person) (54×)H5608b 1. scribe, royal secretary (48×)H3162a 1. together, all together, alike (44×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† I. יְהוּדִי adj.gent. Jewish, as subst. a Jew;—adj.m. אִישׁ יְהוּדִי Zc 8:23; pl. אֲנָשִׁים יְהוּדִים Jewish men Je 43:9 Est 2:5; as subst. Je 34:9 Est 3:4; הַיְהוּדִי the Jew Est 5:13; 6:10; 8:7; 9:29, 31; 10:3; f. הַיְּהֻדִיָּה the Jewess 1 Ch 4:18; pl. Jews יְהוּדִים Je 52:28, 30; הַיְּהוּדִים the Jews 2 K 16:6; 25:25 Je 32:12; 38:19; 40:11, 12; 41:3; 44:1 Ne 1:2; 2:16; 3:33, 34; 4:6; 5:1,…