Judah Explained

Judah or Yehuda is the name of a biblical patriarch, Judah (son of Jacob). It may also refer to:

Historical ethnic, political and geographic terms

• Tribe of Judah, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel; their allotment corresponds to Judah or Judaea
• Judah (region), the name of part of the Land of Israel
  • Kingdom of Judah, an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant
    • History of ancient Israel and Judah
  • Yehud (Persian province), a name introduced in the Babylonian period
  • Judaea (Roman province)
• Or Yehuda, a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel

People

• Judah (given name), or Yehudah, including a list of people with the name
• Judah (surname)

Other uses

• Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States
• N Judah, a light rail line in San Francisco, U.S.
• Yehuda Matzos, an Israeli matzo company

See also

• Juda (disambiguation)
• Judas (disambiguation)
• Jude (disambiguation)
• Yehud (disambiguation)
• Yahud (disambiguation)
• Yehudi (disambiguation)
• Yuda (disambiguation)
• Jews, an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah
• Judas Iscariot, one of the 12 apostles