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Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה, Standard Hebrew: Yəhuda; Tiberian vocalization: Yəhûḏāh, "Celebrated, praised") is the name of several Biblical and historical figures. The original Greek text of the New Testament makes no difference between the names "Judah", "Judas" and "Jude", rendering them all as Ioudas; but in many English translations "Judah" is used for the figure in the Tanakh and the tribe named after him, "Judas" is used primarily for Judas Iscariot, and "Jude" for other New Testament persons of the same name.

The Bible itself mentions no other people of the name, except the original one; however, it became a very common name among Jews in Hellenistic times and remains such up to the present.

The name Judah can refer to:

• Judah (Bible), one of the sons of the Biblical patriarch Jacob (Israel)

All later individuals, groups and places of this name are directly or indirectly derived from this Judah.

Ethnic, political and geographic names and terms

• The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor
• The Kingdom of Judah, the kingdom dominated by the Tribe of Judah and ruled by the House of David, from the breaking off of the Kingdom of Israel following the death of King Solomon until the Babylonian Exile
• Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise (c. 586 BC), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolomeic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependant kingdom and a Roman province.
• Iudaea Province, Roman province, with the Latin spelling
• Jew is derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean"); the derivation is more clear in German "Jude" and in Slavic "Zid".
• Judean Mountains, modern Israeli name for the mountains around Jerusalem, politically divided between Israel and the Occupied West Bank
• Judea and Samaria, controversial term for the West Bank implying a claim for continued Israeli-Jewish possesion and thus strongly disputed, both internationally and inside Israel itself

People

• Judah Maccabee, leader of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid empire
• Judah haNasi, chief redactor of the Mishnah and second-century Jewish leader
• Judah II, third-century Jewish sage
• Judah III, third- and fourth-century Jewish sage
• Yehuda Halevi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet
• Yehuda Alharizi, prominent Medieval Spanish Jewish rabbi, translator, poet and traveller
• Henry M. Judah, American soldier
• Judah P. Benjamin, a politician and lawyer in the United States and Confederate States of America
• Judah Nagler, singer, guitarist and songwriter for indie-pop band The Velvet Teen
• Theodore Judah, American engineer who dreamed of the first transcontinental railroad
• Judah Clark, Creative Entrepreneur from Atlanta Georgia
• Zab Judah, former world champion welterweight boxer
• Yehuda Krinsky, Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi
• Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet

Football

Bnei Yehuda, Israeli football team (literally, "Sons of Judah" or "Sons of Judea")