יְהוּדִי

ye.hu.diJew
hebrewOld TestamentName of a people group75 occurrences5 books69 verses
This word comes from the name of Judah.

Definition

patronymically from H3063; a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)
Traditional renderings: Jew.

Glossary entries

David Jew Judah (Person) Juda (Person)

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

75 total
  1. 2 Kings 16:6הַיְהוּדִ֖ים · the men of Judah
    At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
  2. 2 Kings 25:25הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · along with the Judeans
    In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
  3. Nehemiah 1:2הַיְּהוּדִ֧ים · of the Jews
    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.
  4. Nehemiah 2:16וְלַיְּהוּדִ֨ים · the Jews
    The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
  5. Nehemiah 4:1הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ · the Jews
    Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews
  6. Nehemiah 4:2הַיְּהוּדִ֥ים · Jews
    …before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
  7. Nehemiah 4:12הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the Jews
    At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
  8. Nehemiah 5:1הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ · Jews
    About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
  9. Nehemiah 5:8הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים · our Jewish
    …and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
  10. Nehemiah 5:17וְהַיְּהוּדִ֨ים · Jews
    There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.
  11. Nehemiah 6:6וְהַיְּהוּדִים֙ · and the Jews
    …that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
  12. Nehemiah 13:23הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · Jews
    In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
  13. Esther 2:5יְהוּדִ֔י · a Jewish
    Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
  14. Esther 3:4יְהוּדִֽי׃ · was a Jew
    Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
  15. Esther 3:6הַיְּהוּדִ֛ים · the Jews
    And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
  16. Esther 3:10הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ · of the Jews
    So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
  17. Esther 3:13הַ֠יְּהוּדִים · the Jews
    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
  18. Esther 4:3לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · among the Jews
    In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
  19. Esther 4:7בַּיְּהוּדִיִּים · the Jews
    …and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
  20. Esther 4:13הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ · the Jews
    …he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
  21. Esther 4:14לַיְּהוּדִים֙ · for the Jews
    For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
  22. Esther 4:16הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים · the Jews
    “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
  23. Esther 5:13הַיְּהוּדִ֔י · the Jew
    Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
  24. Esther 6:10הַיְּהוּדִ֔י · the Jew
    “Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
  25. Esther 6:13הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים · is Jewish
    Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
  26. Esther 8:1הַיְּהוּדִיִּים · of the Jews
    That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
  27. Esther 8:3הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃ · the Jews
    And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
  28. Esther 8:5הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the Jews
    “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
  29. Esther 8:7 (2×)הַיְּהוּדִ֑י · the Jew; בַּיְּהוּדִיִּים׃ · the Jews
    So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
  30. Esther 8:8הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים · the Jews
    Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
  31. Esther 8:9 (2×)הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים · the Jews; הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the Jews
    At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
  32. Esther 8:11לַיְּהוּדִ֣ים׀ · the Jews
    By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
  33. Esther 8:13הַיְּהוּדִיִּים · so that the Jews
    A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
  34. Esther 8:16לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים · For the Jews
    For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
  35. Esther 8:17 (2×)לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · among the Jews; הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים · of the Jews
    In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
  36. Esther 9:1 (2×)הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · of the Jews; הַיְּהוּדִ֛ים · [and] the Jews
    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
  37. Esther 9:2הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים · the Jews
    In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
  38. Esther 9:3הַיְּהוּדִ֑ים · the Jews
    And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
  39. Esther 9:5הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · The Jews
    The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
  40. Esther 9:6הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · the Jews
    In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
  41. Esther 9:10הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים · of the Jews
    They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  42. Esther 9:12הַיְּהוּדִ֨ים · the Jews
    …who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
  43. Esther 9:13לַיְּהוּדִים֙ · may the Jews
    Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
  44. Esther 9:15הַיְּהוּדִיִּים · the Jews
    On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  45. Esther 9:16הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים · of the Jews
    The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  46. Esther 9:18וְהַיְּהוּדִיִּים · The Jews
    The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.