Judah
| Pronunciation | "JEW-duh" |
|---|---|
| Gender | Male |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Yehudah |
Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה – often transliterated Yehudah) was the fourth son of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Israel).
Judah may also refer to:
Ethnic, political and geographic names and terms
- Ben Yehuda Street Jerusalem's main streets
- The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor
- The Kingdom of Judah, the Biblical kingdom ruled by the royal line of David
- Yehud Medinata, the Babylonian and Persian province organised from the former kingdom of Judah
- Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise (c. 586 BC), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province
- Iudaea Province, Roman province, with the Latin spelling
- Jew, derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean"); the derivation is more clear in German "Jude" and in Slavic "Zhid"
- Judean Mountains, modern Israeli name for the mountains around Jerusalem, politically divided between Israel and the Occupied West Bank
- Judea and Samaria, official Israeli name for the West Bank
- Or Yehuda, a town in Israel
- State of Judea, a proposed Jewish country located in the West Bank
- Other places
- Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States
People
- Judah (given name)
- Judah (surname)
- Judas Maccabeus, leader of the Maccabees Revolt against the Seleucid empire
- Jude of James and Judas Iscariot, two apostles of Jesus
- Judah the Prince, chief redactor of the Mishnah and second-century Jewish leader
- Judah II, third-century Jewish sage
- Judah III, third- and fourth-century sage
- Judah IV, 4th-century Talmudic sage
- Judah b. Meremar, Babylonian sage
- Yehuda Halevi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet
- Yehuda Bar-Yeshua, one of the ossuaries in the Talpiot Tomb
- Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional character
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, founder of modern Hebrew
Organizations
- Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C., Israeli football team (literally, "Sons of Judah" or "Sons of Judea")
- Gadna Tel Aviv Yehuda F.C., Israeli football team
- Hapoel Mahane Yehuda F.C., Israeli football team
- Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matza company
- Young Judaea, a peer-led Zionist youth movement of Hadassah
- Mateh Yehuda Regional Council
- Mahane Yehuda Market
Related names
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