Juda

Easton's Bible Dictionary

One of the Lord's "brethren" (Mark 6:3 ).

Copyright StatementThese dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain.

Bibliography InformationEaston, Matthew George. Entry for 'Juda'. Easton's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ebd/j/juda.html. 1897.

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. Luke 3:30.

2. Son of Joanna or Hananiah (Luke 3:26) = Abiud (Ab being prefixed), Matthew 1:13. Their times agree, omitting Rhesa of Luke, and allowing for Matthew's omission of generations, = Hodaiah (1 Chronicles 3:24).

3. One of Christ's "brethren" or cousins; brother of James; of the twelve; author of the EPISTLE (See JUDE.) (Mark 6:3; Matthew 13:55; Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13).

Holman Bible Dictionary

Judah

Morrish Bible Dictionary

1. One of the brethren of the Lord, Mark 6:3 : called JUDAS in Matthew 13:55 .

2,3. Son of Joanna, and son of Joseph, in the genealogy of the Lord Jesus. Luke 3:26,30 .

4. The usual form in the N.T. for JUDAH, q.v.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Ju'da. (praised).

1. Son of Joseph, in the genealogy of Christ. Luke 3:30.

2. Son of Joanna, or Hananiah. See 8 Hananiah. Luke 3:26. He seems to be certainly the same person as Abiud in Matthew 1:13.

3. One of the Lord's brethren, enumerated in Mark 6:3.

4. The patriarch, Judah. See The History of Susanna 56; Daniel 13:56; (Apocrypha) Luke 3:33; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; Revelation 7:5.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

jōō´da  : Luke 1:39 the King James Version, see Juttah; Luke 3:26 , see Joda; Luke 3:30 , see Judas .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Ι᾿ούδα , merely the Genitive case of Ι᾿ούδας, the Graecized form of Judah), an incorrect Anglicizing of the name JUDAS or JUDAH in several passages of the Auth. Vers. (See Jud). The patriarch JUDAH, Son of Jacob (Susan. 56; Luke 3:33; Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5; Revelation 7:5). For the "city of Juda" (i.e. the tribe of Judah), in Luke 1:39, (See Juttah).

2. The son of Joseph, and father of Simeon, in Christ's maternal ancestry (Luke 3:30); probably the same with ADAIAH, the father of Maaseiah, which latter was one of the Jewish centurions who aided Jehoiada in restoring Joash to the throne (2 Chronicles 23:1). B.C. ante 876. (See Genealogy Of Christ).

3. The son of Joanna, and father of Joseph (Luke 3:26), another of Christ's maternal ancestors; probably identical with ABIUD, the father of Eliakim, among Christ's paternal ancestry (Matthew 1:13); and likewise with OBADIAH, the son of Aman, and father of Shechaniah (1 Chronicles 3:21). B.C. ante 406. (See Strong's Harm. and Expos. of the Gospels, p. 16, 17.)

4. One of the Lord's brethren, enumerated in Mark 6:3. (See Joses); (See Joseph). On the question of his identity with Jude, the brother of James, one of the twelve apostles (Luke 6:16; Acts 1:13), and with the author of the general epistle, (See James). In Matthew 13:55, his name is given more correctly in the A. Vers. as JUDAH.