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.
Traditional renderings: Jew.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
75 total
- Esther 9:19הַיְּהוּדִ֣ים · JewsThis is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- Esther 9:20הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים · the JewsMordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
- Esther 9:22הַיְּהוּדִים֙ · the Jews…as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
- Esther 9:23הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · So the JewsSo the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- Esther 9:24 (2×)הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the Jews; הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים · the JewsFor Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
- Esther 9:25הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים · the JewsBut when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- Esther 9:27הַיְּהוּדִים֩׀ · the Jews…the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
- Esther 9:28הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the JewsThese days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
- Esther 9:29הַיְּהוּדִ֖י · the JewSo Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- Esther 9:30הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים · the JewsAnd Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
- Esther 9:31הַיְּהוּדִי֙ · the Jew…in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
- Esther 10:3 (2×)הַיְּהוּדִ֗י · the Jew; לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · among the JewsFor Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
- Jeremiah 32:12הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the Jews…and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- Jeremiah 34:9בִּיהוּדִ֥י · Jew {in bondage}…that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
- Jeremiah 38:19הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים · of the JewsBut King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
- Jeremiah 40:11הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים · the JewsWhen all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,
- Jeremiah 40:12הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים · they…they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
- Jeremiah 41:3הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים · the JewsIshmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
- Jeremiah 43:9יְהוּדִֽים׃ · [of the] Jews“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.
- Jeremiah 44:1הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים · the JewsThis is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:
- Jeremiah 52:28יְהוּדִ֕ים · JewsThese are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- Jeremiah 52:30יְהוּדִ֕ים · Jews…in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
- Zechariah 8:23יְהוּדִ֜י · of a JewThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”