Lexical Definition

‎יְהוּדָאִי‎ Yᵉhûwdâʼîy (yeh-hoo-daw-ee') Jew ^N:N--PG
(Aramaic) patrial from ‎יְהוּד‎

Jew.

• a Jehudaite (or Judaite), i.e. Jew

1) Jew

Extended Information

Aramaic of: יְהוּדִי

• Someone descended from Judah (יְהוּדָה) and possibly other tribes, first mentioned at 2Ki.25.25

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Hebrew form: יְהוּדִי
[‎יְהוּדַי‎] name, of a people Jew (Biblical Hebrew ‎יְהוּדִי‎); — plural absolute ‎יְהוּדָאִין‎ (K^{§ 61, 6})) Dan 3:12 emphatic ‎יְהוּדָיֵא‎ (Ib.^ib.) vDan 3:8; Ezra 4:12; Ezra 4:23; Ezra 5:1; Ezra 5:5; Ezra 6:7 (twice in verse); Ezra 6:8; Ezra 6:14.

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