Judah
And I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives
into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of
Judah; and if [that had been] too little, I would moreover
have given unto thee such and such things....
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And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying,
The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with
me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I [am]
as thou [art], my people as thy people, [and] my horses as thy
horses....
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Judah/Yehuda (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה, Standard Yəhuda Tiberian
Yəhûḏāh) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth
son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite
Tribe of Judah; however some Biblical scholars view this as
postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of
the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Isra...
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And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of
the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by
man; and Zabdi was taken:...
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joo'-da (yehudhah, "praised"):
(1) 4th son of Jacob by Leah (see separate article).
(2) An ancestor of Kadmiel, one of those who had the oversight
of the rebuilding of the temple (Ezr 3:9). He is the same as
Hodaviah (Ezr 2:40), and Hodevah (Neh 7:43).
(3) A Levite who had taken a strange wife (Ezr, 10:23).
(4) A Levite who came up with Zerubbabe...
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-1. Son of Jacob
Ge 35:23
Intercedes for Joseph's life when his brothers were
about to
kill him, and proposes that they sell him to the
Ishmaelites
Ge 37:26,27
Takes two wives
Ge 38:1-6
Lives at Chezib
Ge 38:5
His incest with his daughter-in-law
Ge 38:12-26
Goes down into Egypt for corn (grain)
Ge 43:1-10; 44:14-34; 46:28
Prophetic b...
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(praised, celebrated), the fourth son of Jacob and the
fourth of Leah. (B.C. after 1753.) Of Judah's personal
character more traits are preserved than of any other of the
patriarchs, with the exception of Joseph, whose life he in
conjunction with Reuben saved. Ge 37:26-28 During the second
visit to Egypt for corn it was Judah who understood to...
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praise, the fourth son of Jacob by Leah. The name originated
in
Leah's words of praise to the Lord on account of his
birth: "Now
will I praise [Heb. odeh] Jehovah, and she called
his name
Yehudah" (Gen. 29:35).
It was Judah that interposed in behalf of Joseph, so
that his
life was spared (Gen. 37:26, 27). He took a lead in
the affairs
of...
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the praise of the Lord; confession...
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