Jew
יְהוּדִיStrong’s H3064yehudi (ye-hu-di)
Appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yehudi is the Hebrew word usually translated “jews”, “jew” and “jewish”. It appears in 69 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.”
Meaning
- Someone descended from Judah (H3063) and possibly other tribes, first mentioned at 2Ki.25.25
How it's translated
- the jews 48
- to the jews 6
- the jew 6
- and the jews 3
- jews 3
- jewish 2
- for the jews 2
- and to the jews 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 46
- Nehemiah 10
- Jeremiah 10
- 2 Kings 2
- Zechariah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.
- 2 Kings 25:25But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.
- Nehemiah 1:2That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 2:16And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
- Nehemiah 4:1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
- Nehemiah 4:2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
All 69 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יְהוּדִי yehudi · Jew
Someone descended from Judah (H3063) and possibly other tribes, first mentioned at 2Ki.25.25 § Jew
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “jew” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JEW, noun
[a contraction of Judas of Judah.]
A Hebrew or Israelite.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.