The fourth son of Leah and Jacob. In the period of the divided monarchy, the name also refers to the territory and tribes of the southern kingdom, as distinct from the northern kingdom of Israel.
Region in Palestine from about 922 to 587 BC named after one of the tribes of Israel.
(Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah
an ancient kingdom of southern Palestine with Jerusalem as its center
Jacob's fourth son, he was the ancestor of the tribe of Judah; Judah became the name of the southern kingdom after the northern ten tribes separated from Judah and Benjamin. See Biblical Story, Chapter 2.
Hebrew Yehudah. 1) One of the 12 patriarchs (sons of Israel). 2) The tribe descended from him 3) That tribe's allotment in the promised land.4) After the political division of the country following Solomon's reign, the Southern Kingdom, consisting of the tribes of Benjamin and Judah.
Hebrew Yehudah (Aramaic Yehuda; Greek Ioudas; Latin Iudas). In the Greek NT traditionally translated variously as Judah, Judas, and Jude.
Judah or Yehuda (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה, Standard Yəhuda Tiberian , "God" + "Thanks") is the fourth son of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah, as related in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.