Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch,
Judah (son of Jacob)
Judah () was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah of the Israelites. By extension, he is indirectly the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah, the land of Judea, and the wo ...
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Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms
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Tribe of Judah
According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah (, ''Shevet Yehudah'') was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was the first tribe to take its place in the Land of Israel, occupying the southern ...
, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea
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Judea
Judea or Judaea ( or ; from he, יהודה, Hebrew language#Modern Hebrew, Standard ''Yəhūda'', Tiberian vocalization, Tiberian ''Yehūḏā''; el, Ἰουδαία, ; la, Iūdaea) is an ancient, historic, Biblical Hebrew, contemporaneous L ...
, the name of part of the Land of Israel
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Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah ( he, , ''Yəhūdā''; akk, 𒅀𒌑𒁕𒀀𒀀 ''Ya'údâ'' 'ia-ú-da-a-a'' arc, 𐤁𐤉𐤕𐤃𐤅𐤃 ''Bēyt Dāwīḏ'', " House of David") was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Ce ...
, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant
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History of ancient Israel and Judah
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Yehud (Persian province)
Yehud, also known as Yehud Medinata or Yehud Medinta (), was an administrative province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire in the region of Judea that functioned as a self-governing region under its local Jewish population. The province was a part ...
, a name introduced in the Babylonian period
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Judaea (Roman province)
Judaea ( la, Iudaea ; grc, Ἰουδαία, translit=Ioudaíā ) was a Roman province which incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria, and Idumea from 6 CE, extending over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of ...
People
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Judah (given name), or Yehudah, including a list of people with the name
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Judah (surname)
Other uses
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Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States
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N Judah, a light trail line in San Francisco, U.S.
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Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matzo company
See also
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Juda (disambiguation)
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Judas (disambiguation)
Judas Iscariot was the apostle of Jesus who betrayed him.
Judas is also the Greek form of the Hebrew name Judah, and may refer to:
People
* Judah (son of Jacob), a patriarch
* Judas the Zealot, mentioned in the Epistle of the Apostles (Epistula ...
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Jude (disambiguation)
Jude may refer to:
People Biblical
* Jude, brother of Jesus, who is sometimes identified as being the same person as Jude the Apostle
* Jude the Apostle, an apostle also called Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus, the patron saint of lost causes in the C ...
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Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
, an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah
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Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot (; grc-x-biblical, Ἰούδας Ἰσκαριώτης; syc, ܝܗܘܕܐ ܣܟܪܝܘܛܐ; died AD) was a disciple and one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. According to all four canonical gospels, Judas betraye ...
, one of the 12 apostles
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