Person

Judah (Luke 3:26)

Ioda

Ἰωδά

Ancestor in Luke’s genealogy (Joda in some spellings).

This Judah (Joda) stands in Luke 3 between Joanan and Joseph. He is not the patriarch Judah.

View Line of Christ

Matthew and Luke both frame a genealogy around Joseph, yet the names differ after David (Solomon in Matthew, Nathan in Luke). Scripture does not explain the difference. Common theories: (1) Matthew gives the legal/royal line and Luke another kinship line (blood, adoption, or levirate), both tied to Joseph; (2) one list is Joseph’s and Luke’s is Mary’s, with Joseph named because Yahshua was “as was supposed” his son (Luke 3:23)—a reading Luke never states outright; (3) both are Joseph’s by different reckonings (for example legal father and biological father). The chains below follow each Gospel as written.

Line of Christ (Matthew)

From Adam to Yahshua. Genesis carries the line to Abraham; Matthew’s genealogy carries it from Abraham to Yahshua through David and Solomon, ending at Joseph the husband of Mary.

Line of Christ (Luke)

Luke 3:23–38 as written: from Yahshua, “the son (as was supposed) of Joseph,” back through Heli and Nathan son of David to Adam. The names after David differ from Matthew.

Strong’s

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Ἰουδά G2448

Ioudá

Judah (i.e. Jehudah or Juttah), a part of (or place in) Palestine

of Hebrew origin (H03063 or perhaps H03194);

KJV glosses: Judah

Thayer’s

Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.

Ἰουδά G2448

Ioudá

Ιουδα (see Ἰούδας, at the beginning and 1), indeclinable, Judah, a proper name; in the Sept.:

1. the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob;

2. the tribe that sprang from him.

3. the region which this tribe occupied (cf. Winer's Grammar, 114 (108)); so in the N. T. in Mat 2:6 (twice); πόλις Ιουδα (Jdg 17:8), a city of the tribe of Judah, Luk 1:39, where it is a matter of dispute what city is meant; the most probable conjecture seems to be that Hebron is referred to — a city assigned to the priests, situated 'in the hill country' (Χεβρων ἐν τῷ ὄρει Ιουδα, Jos 21:11), the native place of John the Baptist according to Jewish tradition. (Cf. B. D. American edition under the word Juda, a City of.)