King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G2448
Transliteration: Iouda
Phonetic Spelling: (ee-oo-dah')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: Judah
Meaning: Judah
Ιουδα (see Ἰούδας, at the beginning and 1), indeclinable, Judah, a proper name; in the Sept.:
Word 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.)