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Jehudijah

Woman descended from Judah@Gen.29.35-Rev

Jehudijah (or the Judahite) was the wife of Mered and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel, as recorded in the genealogy of Judah.

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Also known as Judahite · Judahite wife · wife from Judah

Jehudijah, also referred to as the Judahite, is mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles. She was the wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah. Jehudijah gave birth to three sons: Jered, who was the father of Gedor; Heber, the father of Soco; and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.

Family

Spouse or partner
Mered

Bible dictionary

Jehudijah Smith Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863)

(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our Authorized Version exhibits at (1 Chronicles 4:18) If it is a proper name at all, it is Ha-jehudijah, like Hammelech, Hak-koz, etc.; and it seems to be rather an appellative, “the Jewess.”

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Jehudijah Hitchcock Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

the praise of the Lord

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Jehudijah Hastings Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible (1898)

JEHUDI'JAH (the Jewess), not a proper name, but applied to one of the wives of Mered to distinguish her from the other, who was an Egyptian. 1 Chr 4:18. The word "Hodiah," 1 Chr 4:19, is the same word contracted.

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Jehudijah Schaff Schaff’s Dictionary of the Bible

JEHUDI'JAH (the Jewess), not a proper name, but applied to one of the wives of Mered to distinguish her from the other, who was an Egyptian. 1 Chr 4:18. The word "Hodiah," 1 Chr 4:19, is the same word contracted.

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Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.

Where Jehudijah appears

1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H3057

1 Chronicles1

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