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Lexicon :: Strong's H3063 - yᵊhûḏâ

Aa
יְהוּדָה
Transliteration
yᵊhûḏâ
Pronunciation
yeh-hoo-daw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 850c

Strong’s Definitions

יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh, yeh-hoo-daw'; from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:—Judah.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 818x

The KJV translates Strong's H3063 in the following manner: Judah (808x), Bethlehemjudah (with H1035) (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 818x
The KJV translates Strong's H3063 in the following manner: Judah (808x), Bethlehemjudah (with H1035) (10x).

  1. Judah = "praised"

    1. the son of Jacob by Leah

    2. the tribe descended from Judah the son of Jacob

    3. the territory occupied by the tribe of Judah

    4. 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

    5. a Levite in Ezra's time

    6. an overseer of Jerusalem in the time of Nehemiah

    7. a Levite musician in the time of Nehemiah

    8. a priest in the time of Nehemiah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יְהוּדָה Yᵉhûwdâh, yeh-hoo-daw'; from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory:—Judah.
STRONGS H3063: Abbreviations
יְהוּדָה 820 proper name, masculine and of a territory Judah (treated Genesis 29:35; Genesis 49:8 (which see below) as if derived from Hoph. of ידה = praised, object of praise (on ה compare Hiph. אֲהוֺדֶ֑נּוּ Psalm 28:7, יְהוֺדֶה Nehemiah 11:17), but this dubious; relation to יְהֻד, II. יְהוּדִית : unexplained; see further JastrJBL xii, 1898, 61 ff.; Assyrian Ia-u-du, of land; Ia-u-da-ai, Judaean COTGloss) —
I. proper name, masculine
1. son of Jacob and Leah, explained by Leah's words I will praise י׳ Genesis 29:35 (J); compare Jacob's prediction, thy brethren shall praise thee Genesis 49:8 (poem in J E), see also Genesis 49:9; Genesis 49:10; elsewhere Genesis 37:26; Genesis 38:1 + 14 times Genesis 38; Genesis 43:3, 8; Genesis 44:14, 16, 18; Genesis 46:28 (all J), Genesis 35:23 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:1, 3; Ruth 4:12; בְּנֵי יְהוּדָה sons of Judah Genesis 46:12; Numbers 26:19 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:3, 4; 1 Chronicles 4:1.
2. tribe descended from Judah Deuteronomy 33:7 (poem), Numbers 1:7 (P), Deuteronomy 27:12 +; בְּנֵי יהודה Numbers 1:26; Joshua 14:6 (D), Judges 1:8 +; שֵׁבֶט יהודה Joshua 7:16 (J), 1 Kings 12:20; 2 Kings 17:18; Psalm 78:68; מַטֵּה בְנֵי יהודה Joshua 15:1, 20, 21; Joshua 21:9 (all P), 1 Chronicles 6:50; elsewhere מַטֵּה יהודה Exodus 31:2; Exodus 35:30; Exodus 38:22; Numbers 1:27; Numbers 7:12; Numbers 13:6; Numbers 34:19; Joshua 7:1, 18; Joshua 21:4 (all P); אישׁ יהודה Judges 15:20 +; אנשׁי יהודה 2 Samuel 2:4 +, (compare amelûti [ṣabê] Ia-u-du Tel el-AmarnaNo. 39 JastrJBL xii, 1893, 64).
3. nation, of southern kingdom under dynasty of David, as distinguished from northern kingdom of Ephraim or Israel: Hosea 4:15; Jeremiah 2:28; 2 Chronicles 12:12 +; of the returned exiles Nehemiah 4:4; עַם יהודה 2 Kings 14:21 2 Chronicles 26:1; Jeremiah 25:1, 2; Ezra 4:4; בְּנֵי יהודה Hosea 2:2; Jeremiah 7:30; 2 Chronicles 13:18; 25:12; 28:10; בֵּית יהודה Hosea 1:7; Jeremiah 3:18; Ezekiel 4:6 +; מַלְכוּת יהודה 2 Chronicles 11:17; personified, בַּת י׳ Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 2:2, 5.
4. Levite, Ezra's time, Ezra 10:23.
5. an over-seer of Jerusalem Nehemiah 11:9.
6. Levite musician Nehemiah 12:8.
7. priest Nehemiah 12:36.
II. proper name, of a territory land of Judah, feminine Isaiah 7:6; Jeremiah 23:6 = Jeremiah 33:16; Jo 4:30; Psalm 114:2 +; ארץ יְהוּדָה 1 Samuel 22:5; 2 Kings 23:24 +; אדמת יהודה Isaiah 19:17; עָרֵי יהודה 2 Samuel 2:1; 1 Kings 12:17; 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 23:5, 8; Isaiah 40:9; Isaiah 44:26; Zechariah 1:12; Psalm 69:36; Lamentations 5:11; elsewhere + 15 times Chronicles, + 23 times Jeremiah; בִּיהודה Judges 15:9 +; מיהודה 1 Kings 13:1 +; הר יהודה the hill-country of Judah Joshua 11:21(D), Joshua 20:7; Joshua 21:11 (P), 2 Chronicles 27:4; נֶגֶב יהודה the south (country) of Judah 1 Samuel 27:10; 2 Samuel 24:7; מדבר יהודה Judges 1:16; Psalm 63:1 (title).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3061.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

29:35; 29:35; 35:23; 37:26; 38; 38:1; 43:3; 43:8; 44:14; 44:16; 44:18; 46:12; 46:28; 49:8; 49:8; 49:9; 49:10

Exodus

31:2; 35:30; 38:22

Numbers

1:7; 1:26; 1:27; 7:12; 13:6; 26:19; 34:19

Deuteronomy

27:12; 33:7

Joshua

7:1; 7:16; 7:18; 11:21; 14:6; 15:1; 15:20; 15:21; 20:7; 21:4; 21:9; 21:11

Judges

1:8; 1:16; 15:9; 15:20

Ruth

4:12

1 Samuel

22:5; 27:10

2 Samuel

2:1; 2:4; 24:7

1 Kings

12:17; 12:20; 13:1

2 Kings

14:21; 17:18; 18:13; 23:5; 23:8; 23:24

1 Chronicles

2:1; 2:3; 2:3; 2:4; 4:1; 6:50

2 Chronicles

11:17; 12:12; 13:18; 25:12; 26:1; 27:4; 28:10

Ezra

4:4; 10:23

Nehemiah

4:4; 11:9; 11:17; 12:8; 12:36

Psalms

28:7; 63:1; 69:36; 78:68; 114:2

Isaiah

7:6; 19:17; 40:9; 44:26

Jeremiah

2:28; 3:18; 7:30; 23:6; 25:1; 25:2; 33:16

Lamentations

1:15; 2:2; 2:5; 5:11

Ezekiel

4:6

Hosea

1:7; 2:2; 4:15

Zechariah

1:12

H3063

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Strong's Number H3063 matches the Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yᵊhûḏâ),
which occurs 819 times in 754 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 16 (Gen 29:35–Jos 11:21)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:35 - And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:23 - Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:26 - And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is there in putting our brother to death and covering up his blood?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 - Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:2 - And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:6 - And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:7 - Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:8 - Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:11 - Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:15 - When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:20 - Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:22 - So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:23 - And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:24 - Now about three months after this, word came to Judah that Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had been acting like a loose woman and was with child. And Judah said, Take her out and let her be burned.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:26 - Then Judah said openly that they were his, and said, She is more upright than I am, for I did not give her to Shelah my son. And he had no more connection with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:3 - And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:14 - So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:16 - And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:18 - Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:12 - And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:28 - Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:8 - To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:9 - Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:10 - The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:2 - Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:2 - I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:22 - Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:7 - From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:26 - The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:27 - Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:3 - Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:9 - The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:12 - And he who made his offering on the first day was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:14 - First the flag of the children of Judah went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Nahshon, the son of Amminadab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:6 - Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:19 - The sons of Judah, Er and Onan: and Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:20 - And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:19 - And these are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:12 - These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:7 - And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:2 - And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 - So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:17 - Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:18 - Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

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