Hebrew word · H3065
יְהוּדִי
yehudi
Jehudi
Appears 4 times in 3 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.
What it means
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.36.14;
son of: Nethaniah (H5418J)
§ Jehudi = "Jew"
son of Nethaniah and servant of king Jehoiakim
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
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Where it appears
Jeremiah · 4
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Jeremiah 36:14 יְהוּדִ֡י Jehudi
Then all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.
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Jeremiah 36:21 יְהוּדִ֗י יְהוּדִי֙ Jehudi
Then the king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing beside him.
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Jeremiah 36:23 יְהוּדִ֗י Jehudi
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
Here: A royal official sent to fetch the scroll (v. 14, 21). His name means "Judahite", which may be ironic: a man named "Judah" reads Judah's warning to a king who destroys it.
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