יְהוּדָה

ye.hu.dahJudah
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man819 occurrences33 books754 verses
This name belongs to 8 different people and places in the Bible:
  • Hodaviah: A Levite who returned from exile
  • Hodiah: A Levite involved in teaching and worship
  • Judah: A Levite who married a foreign woman
  • Judah: Israelite tribe, kingdom, and province
  • Judah: Leader of Judahites living in Jerusalem
  • Judah: A priest who participated in the dedication ceremony
  • Judah: A Levite who participated in the dedication ceremony
  • Judea: The southern region of Israel, centered around Jerusalem

Definition

from H3034; celebrated; Jehudah (or Judah), the name of five Israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
Traditional renderings: Judah.

Glossary entries

David Jew Judah (Person) Juda (Person) Judea, Judeans Hodiah, Hodijah

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

819 total
  1. 2 Chronicles 25:12יְהוּדָ֔ה · of Judah
    …and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
  2. 2 Chronicles 25:13יְהוּדָ֔ה · of Judah
    Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.
  3. 2 Chronicles 25:17יְהוּדָ֔ה · of Judah
    Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent word to the king of Israel Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, the son of Jehu. “Come, let us meet face to face,” he said.
  4. 2 Chronicles 25:18יְהוּדָה֮ · of Judah
    But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
  5. 2 Chronicles 25:19וִיהוּדָ֥ה · and Judah
    You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  6. 2 Chronicles 25:21 (2×)יְהוּדָ֑ה · of Judah; לִיהוּדָֽה׃ · in Judah
    So Jehoash king of Israel advanced, and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh in Judah.
  7. 2 Chronicles 25:22יְהוּדָ֖ה · And Judah
    And Judah was routed before Israel, and every man fled to his own home.
  8. 2 Chronicles 25:23יְהוּדָ֜ה · of Judah
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
  9. 2 Chronicles 25:25יְהוּדָ֔ה · of Judah
    Amaziah son of Joash king of Judah lived for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.
  10. 2 Chronicles 25:26יְהוּדָ֖ה · of Judah
    As for the rest of the acts of Amaziah, from beginning to end, are they not written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel?
  11. 2 Chronicles 25:28יְהוּדָֽה׃ · of Judah
    They carried him back on horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.
  12. 2 Chronicles 26:1יְהוּדָה֙ · of Judah
    All the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in place of his father Amaziah.
  13. 2 Chronicles 26:2לִֽיהוּדָ֑ה · it to Judah
    Uzziah was the one who rebuilt Eloth and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah rested with his fathers.
  14. 2 Chronicles 27:4יְהוּדָ֑ה · of Judah
    He also built cities in the hill country of Judah and fortresses and towers in the forests.
  15. 2 Chronicles 27:7וִיהוּדָֽה׃ · and Judah
    As for the rest of the acts of Jotham, along with all his wars and his ways, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.
  16. 2 Chronicles 28:6בִּֽיהוּדָ֗ה · in Judah
    For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
  17. 2 Chronicles 28:9יְהוּדָ֖ה · Judah
    But a prophet of the LORD named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army that returned to Samaria. “Look,” he said to them, “because of His wrath against Judah, the LORD, the God of your fathers, has delivered them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches up to heaven.
  18. 2 Chronicles 28:10יְהוּדָ֤ה · of Judah
    And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
  19. 2 Chronicles 28:17בִיהוּדָ֖ה · Judah
    The Edomites had again come and attacked Judah and carried away captives.
  20. 2 Chronicles 28:18לִֽיהוּדָה֒ · of Judah
    The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
  21. 2 Chronicles 28:19 (2×)יְהוּדָ֔ה · Judah; בִּֽיהוּדָ֔ה · in Judah
    For the LORD humbled Judah because Ahaz king of Israel had thrown off restraint in Judah and had been most unfaithful to the LORD.
  22. 2 Chronicles 28:25לִֽיהוּדָה֙ · of Judah
    In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.
  23. 2 Chronicles 28:26יְהוּדָ֖ה · of Judah
    As for the rest of the acts of Ahaz and all his ways, from beginning to end, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Judah and Israel.
  24. 2 Chronicles 29:8יְהוּדָ֖ה · Judah
    Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
  25. 2 Chronicles 29:21יְהוּדָ֑ה · Judah
    They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And the king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
  26. 2 Chronicles 30:1וִֽיהוּדָ֗ה · and Judah
    Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  27. 2 Chronicles 30:6וִֽיהוּדָ֔ה · and Judah
    At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
  28. 2 Chronicles 30:12בִּיהוּדָ֗ה · in Judah
    Moreover, the power of God was on the people in Judah to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and his officials according to the word of the LORD.
  29. 2 Chronicles 30:24יְ֠הוּדָה · of Judah
    For Hezekiah king of Judah contributed a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the officials contributed a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly, and a great number of priests consecrated themselves.
  30. 2 Chronicles 30:25 (2×)יְהוּדָ֗ה · of Judah; בִּיהוּדָֽה׃ · in Judah
    Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.
  31. 2 Chronicles 31:1 (2×)יְהוּדָה֒ · of Judah; יְהוּדָ֧ה · Judah
    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
  32. 2 Chronicles 31:6 (2×)וִֽיהוּדָ֗ה · and Judahites; יְהוּדָה֒ · of Judah
    And the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things consecrated to the LORD their God, and they laid them in large heaps.
  33. 2 Chronicles 31:20יְהוּדָ֑ה · Judah
    So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
  34. 2 Chronicles 32:1בִֽיהוּדָ֗ה · Judah
    After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
  35. 2 Chronicles 32:8יְהוּדָֽה׃פ · of Judah
    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.
  36. 2 Chronicles 32:9 (2×)יְהוּדָ֔ה · of Judah; יְהוּדָ֛ה · the people of Judah
    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:
  37. 2 Chronicles 32:12לִֽיהוּדָ֤ה · to Judah
    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’?
  38. 2 Chronicles 32:23יְהוּדָ֑ה · Judah
    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.
  39. 2 Chronicles 32:25יְהוּדָ֖ה · Judah
    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.
  40. 2 Chronicles 32:32יְהוּדָ֖ה · of Judah
    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.
  41. 2 Chronicles 32:33יְהוּדָ֖ה · Judah
    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.
  42. 2 Chronicles 33:9יְהוּדָ֖ה · of Judah
    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.
  43. 2 Chronicles 33:14בִּיהוּדָֽה׃ · of Judah
    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.
  44. 2 Chronicles 33:16לִֽיהוּדָ֔ה · Judah
    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.