יְהוּדָה
ye.hu.dah
Judah
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Yehudah (Judah) in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *yehudah* appears only once in the biblical text according to the lexicon data provided. As a proper noun, it designates "Judah"—a significant geographical and political entity in ancient Israel. The single occurrence limits what can be determined about its range of usage or semantic nuance from the evidence given. Without additional context from the lexicon data regarding the specific verse where this word appears or comparative usage patterns, we cannot establish whether this instance refers to the tribal territory, the kingdom, or a person. The rarity of this particular form in the biblical corpus as recorded here makes it difficult to assess its broader significance or whether it represents a variant spelling or textual anomaly compared to more common forms of the same name that appear throughout Scripture.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text