Hebrew n--pg · H3064
יְהוּדִי
Yehudiyeh-hoo-dee'
Jew
75 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Yᵉhûwdîy
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3064is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 38spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3064
a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)
The King James renders it: Jew.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Yehudi is rendered "Jew". It stands 75 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Fifty-two of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 16:6At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-eight different ways.
The first use
At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
2 Kings 16:6הַיְהוּדִ֖ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifty-two of the word's seventy-five uses are in Esther.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the Jews48
- the Jew6
- to the Jews6
- and the Jews3
- Jews3
- for the Jews2
- Jewish2
- a Jew1
- and to the Jews1
- by a Jew1
- of the Jews1
- on the Jews1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְהוּדָאִי | Yehudai | Jew | Uses10 |
| יְהוּדִית | Yehudith | Judahite | Uses6 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 75, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
38 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים8
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙6
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗ים5
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃5
- הַיְּהוּדִ֜ים4
- הַיְּהוּדִ֡ים4
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים4
- לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים3
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔י2
- הַיְּהוּדִ֛ים2
- הַיְּהוּדִ֑ים2
- הַיְּהוּדִ֣ים2
and 26 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)49HTd/Ngmpa
- preposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)9HRd/Ngmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)6HTd/Ngmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)3HC/Td/Ngmpa
- gentilic noun (a people)3HNgmpa
- gentilic noun (a people)3HNgmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)1HC/Rd/Ngmpa
- preposition + gentilic noun (a people)1HR/Ngmsa
2 Kings
two uses
At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
- הַיְהוּדִ֖יםhayhudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Nehemiah
ten uses
Hanani, one of my brothers, arrived with men from Judah. So I questioned them about the remnant of the Jews who had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֧יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, for I had not yet told the Jews or priests or nobles or officials or any other workers.
- וְלַיְּהוּדִ֨יםvelaiyehudimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and to the Jews
Now when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he was furious and filled with indignation. He ridiculed the Jews
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֥יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
At that time the Jews who lived nearby came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֜יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.
- וְהַיְּהוּדִ֨יםvehaiyehudimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jews
that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
- וְהַיְּהוּדִים֙vehaiyehudimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jews
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Esther
fifty-two uses
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
- יְהוּדִ֔יyehudigentilic noun (a people)tagged: Jewish
Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
- יְהוּדִֽי׃yehudigentilic noun (a people)tagged: a Jew
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֛יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
- הַ֠יְּהוּדִיםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- לַיְּהוּדִ֔יםlaiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
- בַּיְּהוּדִ֖יםbaiyehudiyimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: for the Jews
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
- לַיְּהוּדִים֙laiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: for the Jews
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֜יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יhaiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יhaiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֡יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֑יםhaiyehudiyimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: of the Jews
And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
- הַיְּהוּדִֽים׃haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֑יhaiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
- בַּיְּהוּדִֽים׃baiyehudiyimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: on the Jews
Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֜יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֡יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.
- לַיְּהוּדִ֣ים׀laiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֤יםhaiyehudiyimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
- לַיְּהוּדִ֕יםlaiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
- לַיְּהוּדִ֔יםlaiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
- הַיְּהוּדִ֛יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֜יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֑יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֨יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
- לַיְּהוּדִים֙laiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֣יםhaiyehudiyimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֡יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
- וְהַיְּהוּדִ֣יםvehaiyehudiyimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: and the Jews
This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֣יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֙haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
- הַיְּהוּדִים֩׀haiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֖יhaiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
- הַיְּהוּדִי֙haiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יhaiyehudithe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jew
- לַיְּהוּדִ֔יםlaiyehudimpreposition with the article + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: to the Jews
Jeremiah
ten uses
and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
- בִּיהוּדִ֥יbihudipreposition + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: by a Jew
But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,
- הַיְּהוּדִ֡יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
they all returned from all the places to which they had been banished and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah. And they gathered an abundance of wine grapes and summer fruit.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
- הַיְּהוּדִ֗יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
“In the sight of the Jews, pick up some large stones and bury them in the clay of the brick pavement at the entrance to Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes.
- יְהוּדִֽים׃yehudimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Jews
This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:
- הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםhaiyehudimthe definite article (“the”) + gentilic noun (a people)tagged: the Jews
These are the people Nebuchadnezzar carried away: in the seventh year, 3,023 Jews;
- יְהוּדִ֕יםyehudimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Jews
in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
- יְהוּדִ֕יםyehudimgentilic noun (a people)tagged: Jews
Zechariah
one use
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
- יְהוּדִ֜יyehudigentilic noun (a people)tagged: Jewish
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