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• Judah — /jooh deuh/, n. 1. the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:35. 2. one of the 12 tribes of Israel traditionally descended from him. 3. the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Cf. Ephraim… …   Universalium

• Judah — noun a) Fourth son of Jacob, by his wife Leah. b) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Judah, from which David and his lineage came …   Wiktionary

• JUDAH HA-LEVI BEI-RABBI HILLEL — JUDAH HA LEVI BEI RABBI HILLEL, medieval paytan, some of whose work was recently discovered in the Cairo Genizah. Judah s piyyutim are based on customs prevailing in Ereẓ Israel, which would indicate that he lived there or in Egypt, where there… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Judah Kalaẓ — (Khallaṣ) was a cabalist and moralist. He lived in Algeria, probably at Tlemçen, at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The surname Kalaẓ is derived from the Arabic khallaṣ (= collector of taxes ). Kalaz was descended from a Spanish family,… …   Wikipedia

• Judah — [jo͞o′də] n. [Heb yehūdhāh, lit., praised] 1. a masculine name: dim. Jude; fem. Judith 2. Bible a) Jacob s fourth son, whose mother was Leah: Gen. 29:35 b) the tribe descended from him, the strongest of the twelve tribes of Israel: Num. 1:26 3.… …   English World dictionary

• Judah Loew ben Bezalel — Ladislav Šaloun s statue popularly ascribed to Loew at the new town hall of Prague in the Czech Republic. Judah Loew ben Bezalel, alt. Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, (c. 1520 – 17 September 1609)[1] widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of… …   Wikipedia

• Judah — Ju•dah [[t]ˈdʒu də[/t]] n. 1) bib the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Gen. 29:35 2) bib one of the 12 tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from him 3) bib geg the Biblical kingdom of the Hebrews in S Palestine, including the tribes of Judah… …   From formal English to slang

• Tribe of Judah — The Tribe of Judah (Hebrew Name|יְהוּדָה|Yəhuda|Yəhûḏāh| Praise ) was one of the Tribes of Israel. At its height, it was the leading tribe of the Kingdom of Judah, and occupied most of the territory of the kingdom, except for a small region in… …   Wikipedia

• Descent from antiquity — (DFA) is the project of establishing a well researched, generation by generation descent of living persons from people living in antiquity. It is an ultimate challenge in prosopography and genealogy. The idea is by no means new. Hellenistic… …   Wikipedia

• Nathan Judah ben Solomon — was a Provençal Jewish physician and scholar of the fourteenth century. His Provençal names were En Bongodas and Bonjues and he was probably a native of Avignon, where lived many other members of the Nathan family. Judah, like all the other… …   Wikipedia

• David — This article is about the biblical king. For other uses, see David (disambiguation). Daud , Dawood , and King David redirect here. For other uses, see Daud (disambiguation), Dawood (disambiguation), and King David (disambiguation). King David… …   Wikipedia