jehudijah Summary and Overview

(the Jewess). There is really no such name in the Hebrew Bible as that which our Authorized Version exhibits at #1Ch 4:18| If it is a proper name at all, it is Ha-jehudijah, like Hammelech, Hak-koz, etc.; and it seems to be rather an appellative, "the Jewess."

JEHUDI'JAH (the Jewess), not a proper name, but applied to one of the wives of Mered to distinguish her from the other, who was an Egyptian. 1 Chr 4:18. The word "Hodiah," 1 Chr 4:19, is the same word contracted.

The Jewess wife of Mered, as distinguished from see BITHIAH , his Egyptian wife (1 Chronicles 4:17-19). Bertheau simply transposes "these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh whom Mered took," and puts the clause after "Jalon." Thus, "she" refers to Bithiah, "and she bore Miriam," etc.; whereas in the common text "she" has none to refer to. Also thus the sons come regularly after their respective mothers. The margin of 1 Chronicles 4:19 identifies Hodiah with Jehu; but Keil remarks that the construct state, eeshet , before Hodiah, shows it to be a 1 Chronicles 2:38. man's name, "the sons of Hodiah's wife" (not of his wife Hodiah), the sister of Naham. Of her sons, Jered was father (founder) of see GEDOR and Heber father (founder) of see SOCHO , etc.