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Judah is a related term of yehudit.

judah

English

(wikipedia Judah)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Fourth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
  • * 1611 — 35:22b-26
    • Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: 23 The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah , and Issachar, and Zebulun: 24 The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: 25 And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: 26 And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
  • (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Judah, from which David and his lineage came.
  • (biblical) The name of the southern Israelite kingdom which continued to be ruled by the Davidic dynasty after Solomon's death and the breakup of the united monarchy, with the northern portion keeping the name Israel.
  • * 1611 — 21:11
    • And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah , with the suburbs thereof round about it.
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    • Derived terms

    * Judahite * Judaic * Judaism * Judea * Jew * Lion of Judah

    See also

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    yehudit

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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  • * 1994 , , Fear of Fifty , page 61:
    • My mother was called Yehudit by her Russian Jewish parents when she was born in England, but the intransigent Englishman in the registry office had changed it first to Judith and then to Edith ( "good English names" ) - leaving the resultant impression that Jews were not even allowed to keep their own names.

    Related terms

    (wikipedia Yehudit) * Judah * Judith * Yehuda