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 w ...
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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 (son of Jacob), Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was one of the tribes to take its place in Canaan, occupying it ...
, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea
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Judah (region), the name of part of the Land of Israel
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Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah was an Israelites, Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age. Centered in the highlands to the west of the Dead Sea, the kingdom's capital was Jerusalem. It was ruled by the Davidic line for four centuries ...
, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant
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History of ancient Israel and Judah
The history of ancient Israel and Judah spans from the early appearance of the Israelites in Canaan's hill country during the late second millennium BCE, to the establishment and subsequent downfall of the two Israelite kingdoms in the mi ...
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Yehud (Persian province)
Yehud Medinata, also called Yehud Medinta ( ) or simply Yehud, was an autonomous province of the Achaemenid Empire. Located in Judea, the territory was distinctly Jewish, with the High Priest of Israel emerging as a central religious and politi ...
, a name introduced in the Babylonian period
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Judaea (Roman province)
Judaea was a Roman province from 6 to 135 CE, which at its height encompassed the regions of Judea, Idumea, Peraea, Samaria, and Galilee, as well as parts of the coastal plain of the southern Levant. At its height, it encompassed much ...
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Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. Located in the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area, in it had a population of .
History Prehistory
Human settlement back to the Chalcolithic has been found on the site.[Judah (given name)
Judah is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin. It is the English form of ''Yehudah'' (), the Hebrew name of the biblical figure Judah, founder of the Tribe of Judah and thus, the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah and the Jews.
Etymology
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, or Yehudah, including a list of people with the name
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Judah (surname)
Other uses
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Judah, Indiana
Judah is a Census-designated place in Marshall Township, Lawrence County, Indiana.
Judah was named from the presence of the Judah School, established in 1882.
Demographics
The United States Census Bureau delineated Judah as a census designated ...
, a small town in the United States
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N Judah
The N Judah is a hybrid light rail/streetcar line of the Muni Metro system in San Francisco, California. The line is named after Judah Street that it runs along for much of its length, named after railroad engineer Theodore Judah. It links down ...
, a light rail line in San Francisco, U.S.
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Yehuda Matzos
Yehuda Matzos Moshe Ludmir & Sons Ltd. (), or simply Yehuda Matzos (Hebrew מצות יהודה ''Matzot Yehuda'') is a large Israeli matzo company based in Jerusalem which is a large local matzo company and leading exporter to the United States, ...
, an Israeli matzo company
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Juda (disambiguation)
Juda may refer to:
People
* Adele Juda (1888–1949), Austrian psychologist and neurologist
* Annely Juda (1914–2006), German art dealer
* Elsbeth Juda (1911–2014), British photographer
* Paul Juda (born 2001), American artistic gymnast
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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 (Epistu ...
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Jude (disambiguation)
Jude may refer to:
People
* Jews
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 cause ...
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Yehud (disambiguation) Yehud may refer to:
* Yehud, the Levantine province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire
* Yehud Medinata, the Levantine province of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
* Yehud, the modern-day Israeli city
See also
*Yahud (disambiguation)
*Yehudi (disambiguatio ...
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Yahud (disambiguation)
Yahud may refer to:
* (), (), and (), the Hebrew word for Jews
* or ''Yahudy'' (), the Arabic word for Jews
* Yehud (), a city in Israel located near the Ben Gurion Airport
* Yehud Medinata, the Levantine province of the Achaemenid Persian ...
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Yehudi (disambiguation)
Yehudi or Jehudi (Hebrew: יהודי, endonym for Jew) is a common Hebrew name:
* Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor
** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England
** Who's Yehoodi?, a catchphrase referring to the ...
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Yuda (disambiguation)
Yuda may refer to:
* Yuda, Iwate, a town in Japan
* Abbreviation of the name Yehuda
* Yuda, a character from ''Fist of the North Star''
* Yuda (comics), a Kryptonian deity from DC Comics
* "Dong Work for Yuda", a song by Frank Zappa from the ...
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Jews
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, rel ...
, an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah
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Judas Iscariot
Judas Iscariot (; ; died AD) was, according to Christianity's four canonical gospels, one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. Judas betrayed Jesus to the Sanhedrin in the Garden of Gethsemane, in exchange for thirty pieces of sil ...
, one of the 12 apostles
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