judah

Other forms of judah

plural

judahs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about judah

What does judah mean?

judah means "(Old Testament) the fourth son of Jacob who was forebear of one of the tribes of Israel; one of his descendants was to be the Messiah". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in judah?

judah has 2 syllables: ju-dah. The stress falls on "ju". In IPA it is /ˈdʒudə/.

What is another word for judah?

Close synonyms include Juda. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is judah a common word?

judah is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.