יְהוּדָה

ye.hu.dah

Hebrew H3063 Personal name, masculine 819 occurrences in 754 verses
יְהוּדָה Judah

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.35;

son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812);

brother of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783);

half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); married to Bath-shua (H1323I) and Tamar (H8559);

father of: Er (H6147), Onan (H0209), Shelah (H7956), Perez (H6557) and Zerah (H2226I)

§ 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

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 754 verses

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:8 יְהוּדָֽה׃פ

    With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people were strengthened by the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

  2. 2 Chronicles 32:9 יְהוּדָ֔היְהוּדָ֛ה

    Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:

  3. 2 Chronicles 32:12 לִֽיהוּדָ֤ה

    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?

  4. 2 Chronicles 32:23 יְהוּדָ֑ה

    Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.

  5. 2 Chronicles 32:25 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

  6. 2 Chronicles 32:32 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    As for the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his deeds of loving devotion, they are indeed written in the vision of the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.

  7. 2 Chronicles 32:33 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

  8. 2 Chronicles 33:9 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

  9. 2 Chronicles 33:14 בִּיהוּדָֽה׃

    After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

  10. 2 Chronicles 33:16 לִֽיהוּדָ֔ה

    Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

  11. 2 Chronicles 34:3 יְהוּדָה֙

    In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

  12. 2 Chronicles 34:5 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  13. 2 Chronicles 34:9 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.

  14. 2 Chronicles 34:11 יְהוּדָֽה׃

    They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.

  15. 2 Chronicles 34:21 וּבִֽיהוּדָ֔ה

    “Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”

  16. 2 Chronicles 34:24 יְהוּדָֽה׃

    that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,

  17. 2 Chronicles 34:26 יְהוּדָ֗ה

    But as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of the LORD, tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for the words that you heard,

  18. 2 Chronicles 34:29 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  19. 2 Chronicles 34:30 יְהוּדָ֜ה

    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.

  20. 2 Chronicles 35:18 יְהוּדָה֙

    No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

  21. 2 Chronicles 35:21 יְהוּדָ֗ה

    But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, O king of Judah? I have not come against you today, but I am fighting another dynasty. God told me to hurry; so stop opposing God, who is with me, or He will destroy you!”

  22. 2 Chronicles 35:24 יְהוּדָה֙

    So his servants took him out of his chariot, put him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. And Josiah was buried in the tomb of his fathers, and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for him.

  23. 2 Chronicles 35:27 וִיהוּדָֽה׃

    his acts from beginning to end—they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

  24. 2 Chronicles 36:4 יְהוּדָה֙

    Then Neco king of Egypt made Eliakim brother of Jehoahaz king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Eliakim’s brother Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt.

  25. 2 Chronicles 36:8 וִֽיהוּדָ֑ה

    As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.

  26. 2 Chronicles 36:10 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    In the spring, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned Jehoiachin and brought him to Babylon, along with the articles of value from the house of the LORD. And he made Jehoiachin’s relative Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.

  27. 2 Chronicles 36:23 בִּֽיהוּדָ֑ה

    “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belongs to His people, may the LORD his God be with him, and may he go up.’”

  28. Ezra 1:2 בִּֽיהוּדָֽה׃

    “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, who has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, has appointed me to build a house for Him at Jerusalem in Judah.

  29. Ezra 1:3 בִּיהוּדָ֑ה

    Whoever among you belongs to His people, may his God be with him, and may he go to Jerusalem in Judah and build the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

  30. Ezra 1:5 לִֽיהוּדָה֙

    So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.

  31. Ezra 1:8 לִיהוּדָֽה׃

    Cyrus king of Persia had them brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.

  32. Ezra 2:1 וִֽיהוּדָ֖ה

    Now these are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

  33. Ezra 3:9 יְהוּדָה֙

    So Jeshua and his sons and brothers, Kadmiel and his sons (descendants of Yehudah), and the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers—all Levites—joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.

  34. Ezra 4:1 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building a temple for the LORD, the God of Israel,

  35. Ezra 4:4 יְהוּדָ֑ה

    Then the people of the land set out to discourage the people of Judah and make them afraid to build.

  36. Ezra 4:6 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, an accusation was lodged against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

  37. Ezra 9:9 בִּֽיהוּדָ֖ה

    Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

  38. Ezra 10:7 בִּיהוּדָ֣ה

    And a proclamation was issued throughout Judah and Jerusalem that all the exiles should gather at Jerusalem.

  39. Ezra 10:9 יְהוּדָה֩

    So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

  40. Ezra 10:23 יְהוּדָ֖ה

    Among the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

  41. Nehemiah 1:2 מִֽיהוּדָ֑ה

    Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.

  42. Nehemiah 2:5 יְהוּדָ֗ה

    and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”

  43. Nehemiah 2:7 יְהוּדָֽה׃

    I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may letters be given to me for the governors west of the Euphrates, so that they will grant me safe passage until I reach Judah.

  44. Nehemiah 4:10 יְהוּדָ֗ה

    Meanwhile, the people of Judah said: “The strength of the laborer fails, and there is so much rubble that we will never be able to rebuild the wall.”

  45. Nehemiah 4:16 יְהוּדָֽה׃

    And from that day on, half of my servants did the work while the other half held spears, shields, bows, and armor. The officers stationed themselves behind all the people of Judah

  46. Nehemiah 5:14 יְהוּדָה֒

    Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

  47. Nehemiah 6:7 בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה

    and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ‘There is a king in Judah.’ Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”

  48. Nehemiah 6:17 יְהוּדָה֙

    Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came back to them.

  49. Nehemiah 6:18 בִּֽיהוּדָ֗ה

    For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, since he was a son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam son of Berechiah.

  50. Nehemiah 7:6 וְלִיהוּדָ֖ה

    These are the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles carried away to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar its king. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town,

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