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  2. Judah (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew name for Judah, Yehuda (יהודה), literally "thanksgiving" or "praise," is a variant form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), "to thank" or "to praise." [1] His birth is recorded at Gen. 29:35; upon his birth, Leah exclaims, "This time I will praise the LORD/YHWH," with the Hebrew word for "I will praise," odeh (אודה) sharing the same root as Yehuda.

  3. Judah (son of Jacob) - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew name for Judah, Yehuda (יהודה), literally "thanksgiving" or "praise," is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), "to thank" or "to praise." [ 3 ] His birth is recorded at Gen. 29:35; upon his birth, Leah exclaims, "This time I will praise the LORD / YHWH ," with the Hebrew word for "I will praise," odeh (אודה) sharing the ...

  4. Judah - Wikipedia

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    Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea; Judah (region), the name of part of the Land of Israel Kingdom of Judah, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant History of ancient Israel and Judah; Yehud (Persian province), a name introduced in the Babylonian period; Judaea (Roman province)

  5. Kingdom of Judah - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Judah [a] was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. [3] It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries. [4] Jews are named after Judah, and primarily descend from people who lived in the region. [5] [6] [7]

  6. Judea - Wikipedia

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    The name Judea is a Greek and Roman adaptation of the name "Judah", which originally encompassed the territory of the Israelite tribe of that name and later of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. Nimrud Tablet K.3751, dated c. 733 BCE, is the earliest known record of the name Judah (written in Assyrian cuneiform as Yaudaya or KUR.ia-ú-da-a-a).

  7. Kings of Judah - Wikipedia

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    The genealogy of the kings of Judah, along with the kings of Israel.. The Kings of Judah were the monarchs who ruled over the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which was formed in about 930 BC, according to the Hebrew Bible, when the United Kingdom of Israel split, with the people of the northern Kingdom of Israel rejecting Rehoboam as their monarch, leaving him as solely the King of Judah.

  8. Jew (word) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Book of Genesis, Judah (יְהוּדָה ‎, Yehudah) was the name of the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob. During the Exodus, the name was given to the Tribe of Judah, descended from the patriarch Judah. After the conquest and settlement of the land of Canaan, Judah also

  9. New Testament people named Judas or Jude - Wikipedia

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    The names Judas and Jude, both derived from the Greek Ἰούδας (Ioúdas), itself derived from the Hebrew name Judah (יהודה, Y e hûdâh, Hebrew for "God is thanked") together appear 36 times in the New Testament. [3] Judas was a very common given name in the historical period and region of Jesus, due to the renowned hero Judas Maccabeus.