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# יְהוּדִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3065

**Jehudi** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jehudi [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3065/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְהוּדִי²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3065/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. officer of Jehoiakim Je 36:14, 21(×2), 23, 𝔊 Ιουδιν (perhaps orig. appell. Jewish, of one not so by ancestry, v. Gf Gie).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jehudi (4).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 36:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.23/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כִּקְר֣וֹא יְהוּדִ֗י שָׁלֹ֣שׁ דְּלָתוֹת֮ וְאַרְבָּעָה֒ יִֽקְרָעֶ֙הָ֙ בְּתַ֣עַר הַסֹּפֵ֔ר וְהַשְׁלֵ֕ךְ אֶל־הָאֵ֖שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֶל־הָאָ֑ח עַד־תֹּם֙ כָּל־הַמְּגִלָּ֔ה עַל־הָאֵ֖שׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל־הָאָֽח׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.read.aloud Jehudi three doors and four he tore.it with the.knife of the.scribe and he.threw.\[it\] into the fire which \[was\].to the fire-pot until was.consumed all the scroll on the fire which \[was\].on the fire-pot

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, when Jehudi had read three or four columns, that he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

[Jeremiah 36:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.36.21/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־יְהוּדִ֗י לָקַ֙חַת֙ אֶת־הַמְּגִלָּ֔ה וַיִּ֨קָּחֶ֔הָ מִלִּשְׁכַּ֖ת אֱלִישָׁמָ֣ע הַסֹּפֵ֑ר וַיִּקְרָאֶ֤הָ יְהוּדִי֙ בְּאָזְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וּבְאָזְנֵי֙ כָּל־הַשָּׂרִ֔ים הָעֹמְדִ֖ים מֵעַ֥ל הַמֶּֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent the king (et) Jehudi to fetch (et) the scroll and he fetched.it from the.room of.Elishama the scribe and he read.it.aloud Jehudi in the.ears of the.king and in the.ears of.all the officials \[who were\].standing from with the king

*JPS 1917:* So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3065.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3065/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).