Judah (son of Jacob)

Judah
Judah
יְהוּדָה‎
	Portrait of Judah from Judah and Tamar (1840) by Horace Vernet
Born	c. 1600 BCE; Paddan Aram, Aram-Naharaim; (present-day Harran, Turkey)
Died	Yehud, Canaan; (present-day Yehud, Israel)
Resting place	32°01′51″N 34°53′15″E / 32.030797°N 34.887616°E
Spouse	Aliyath
Children	Sons through Aliyath: Er ; Onan ; Shelah ; Twin sons through his daughter-in-law Tamar Perez and Zerah ;
Parents	Jacob (father); Leah (mother);
Relatives	See list Reuben (brother) ; Simeon (brother) ; Levi (brother) ; Dan (half-brother) ; Naphtali (half-brother) ; Gad (half-brother) ; Asher (half-brother) ; Issachar (brother) ; Zebulun (brother) ; Dinah (sister) ; Joseph (half-brother) ; Benjamin (half-brother) ; Rebecca (grandmother) ; Isaac (grandfather) ; Esau (uncle) ; Rachel (aunt/stepmother) ; Laban (grandmothers-brother) and (grandfather) ; Abraham (great-grandfather) ; Sarah (great-grandmother) ;

Judah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה‎, Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā)^[1] was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah and the founder of the Tribe of Judah of the Israelites. By extension, he is indirectly the eponym of the Kingdom of Judah, the land of Judea, and the word Jew.

According to the narrative in Genesis, Judah alongside Tamar is a patrilineal ancestor of the Davidic line. Textual critics see Genesis 38’s Judah and Tamar narrative as both a deliberate literary bridge within the Joseph story and a pro-Judah insertion reflecting the tribe’s later political and theological dominance in Israel’s history.

^ Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1783746767.

[1] Khan, Geoffrey (2020). The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew, Volume 1. Open Book Publishers. ISBN 978-1783746767.

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