Yᵉhûwdâh — H3063

H3063 · Hebrew — יהודה

Pronunciation: yeh-hoo-daw'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory

  1. Judah = "praised"
  2. the son of Jacob by Leah
  3. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob
  4. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah
  5. the kingdom comprised of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin which occupied the southern part of Canaan after the nation split upon the death of Solomon
  6. a Levite in Ezra's time
  7. an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah
  8. a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah
  9. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

Usually translated as

Judah

Origin

from H3034; celebrated

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Yᵉhûwdâh occurs 819 times in 754 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (26), Exodus (4), Numbers (12), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (22), Judges (22), Ruth (4), 1 Samuel (13), 2 Samuel (27), 1 Kings (39), 2 Kings (88), 1 Chronicles (23), 2 Chronicles (145), Ezra (13), Nehemiah (27), Esther (1), Psalms (9), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (26), Jeremiah (165), Lamentations (5), Ezekiel (15), Daniel (4), Hosea (15), Joel (6), Amos (4), Obadiah (1), Micah (4), Nahum (1), Zephaniah (3), Haggai (4), Zechariah (20), Malachi (2)

Strong's Lexicon — Y