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ALL meanings of judah

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  • noun judah the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:35. 1
  • noun judah one of the 12 tribes of Israel traditionally descended from him. 1
  • noun judah the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Compare Ephraim (def 3). 1
  • noun judah a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “praised.”. 1
  • noun judah the fourth son of Jacob, one of whose descendants was to be the Messiah (Genesis 29:35; 49:8–12) 0
  • noun judah the tribe descended from him 0
  • noun judah the tribal territory of his descendants which became the nucleus of David's kingdom and, after the kingdom had been divided into Israel and Judah, the southern kingdom of Judah, with Jerusalem as its centre 0
  • noun judah a masculine name: dim. Jude; fem. Judith 0
  • noun judah Jacob's fourth son, whose mother was Leah: Gen. 29:35 0
  • noun judah the tribe descended from him, the strongest of the twelve tribes of Israel: Num. 1:26 0
  • noun judah the kingdom in the S part of Palestine formed by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin after they broke with the other ten tribes: 1 Kings 11:31; 12: 17-21 0
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