According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe of Judah was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel, named after Judah, the son of Jacob. Judah was one of the tribes to take its place in Judea, occupying its sou
Moses counting Judah's kin
The Valley of Elah, near Adullam, in the territorial boundary of Judah
The lion is the symbol of the tribe of Judah. It is often represented in Jewish art, such as this sculpture outside a synagogue
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