Lexical Summary Iouda: Judah Original Word: ἸούδαTransliteration: Iouda Phonetic Spelling: (ee-oo-dah') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: Judah Meaning: Judah Strong's Concordance Judah. Of Hebrew origin (Yhuwdah or perhaps Yuttah); Judah (i.e. Jehudah or Juttah), a part of (or place in) Palestine -- Judah. see HEBREW Yhuwdah see HEBREW Yuttah Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2448: ΙουδαΙουδα (see Ἰούδας, at the beginning and 1), indeclinable, Judah, a proper name; in the Sept.: 1. the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob; 2. the tribe that sprang from him. 3. the region which this tribe occupied (cf. Winer's Grammar, 114 (108)); so in the N. T. in Matthew 2:6 (twice); πόλις Ιουδα (Judges 17:8), a city of the tribe of Judah, Luke 1:39, where it is a matter of dispute what city is meant; the most probable conjecture seems to be that Hebron is referred to — a city assigned to the priests, situated 'in the hill country' (Χεβρων ἐν τῷ ὄρει Ιουδα, Joshua 21:11), the native place of John the Baptist according to Jewish tradition. (Cf. B. D. American edition under the word Juda, a City of.) |
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