H3065 H3065
Jehudi, a court official of King Jehoiakim who read Jeremiah's scroll aloud
A personal name belonging to an officer in King Jehoiakim's court, appearing only in Jeremiah 36. Jehudi was sent to fetch the scroll of Jeremiah's prophecies and then read it aloud before the king (Jer 36:14, 21, 23). BDB notes the name may originally have been an appellative meaning 'the Judean,' possibly indicating non-Israelite ancestry—an ironic detail, given his role as reader of divine judgment against Judah.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The proper name of Jehoiakim's court official who retrieved and publicly read Jeremiah's prophetic scroll. All four occurrences cluster in Jer 36:14–23, where Jehudi serves as intermediary between the prophetic word and the king who destroys it column by column. French and German render it 'Jehudi,' while English and Spanish use 'Yehudi'/'Yehudi,' preserving the etymological link to Judah (יְהוּדָה). 4×
AR["يَهُودِيَّ", "يَهُودِيُّ"]·ben["যিহূদী", "যিহূদীকে"]·DE["Jehudi"]·EN["Yehudi"]·FR["Jehudi"]·heb["יהודי"]·HI["यहूदी", "यहूदी-ने"]·ID["Yehudi"]·IT["Ieudi"]·jav["Yéhudi"]·KO["예후디가", "예후디를"]·PT["Yehudi"]·RU["Иегуди"]·ES["Yehudi"]·SW["Yehudi"]·TR["Yehudi", "Yehudi'yi"]·urd["یہودی", "یہودی-نے"]
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
† II. יְהוּדִי n.pr.m. officer of Jehoiakim Je 36:14, 21(×2), 23, 𝔊 Ιουδιν (perhaps orig. appell. Jewish, of one not so by ancestry, v. Gf Gie).