The English term Jew is originally derived from the Hebrew term Yehudi, which passed into Greek as Ioudaios and into Latin as Iudaeus, in turn evolving into the Old French term giu after the letter "d
Hasmonean coin of John Hyrcanus (134 to 104 BCE) with the inscription Hayehudim ("of the Jews")
A page from Elia Levita's Yiddish–Hebrew–Latin–German dictionary (16th century) contains a list of nations, including an entry for Jew: Hebrew: יְהוּדִי Yiddish: יוּד German: Jud Latin: Iudaeus
Jeconiah, also known as Coniah and as Jehoiachin, was the nineteenth and penultimate king of Judah who was dethroned by the King of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II in the 6th century BCE and was taken into
Clay tablet. The Akkadian cuneiform inscription lists certain rations and mentions the name of Jeconiah (Jehoiachin), King of Judah, and the Babylonian captivity. From Babylon, Iraq, c. 580 BCE. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
Jews at Ezekiel's Tomb, al-Kifl, Iraq, 1932
Lunette in the Sistine Chapel of Jeconiah with Shealtiel and Josiah.
Jeconiah submitting to King Nebuchadnezzar II (Jeremiah 22:25–26. 'And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. 26 And I will cast you out, and your mother that bare you, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die'. Illustration by William Hole, 1846–1917)