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Person

Judah (Luke 3:30)

Ioudas

Ἰούδας

Ancestor in Luke’s genealogy; not the patriarch.

This Judah stands in Luke 3 between Joseph and Simeon. He is not Judah son of Jacob.

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.

  1. Adam
  2. Seth
  3. Enosh
  4. Kenan
  5. Mahalalel
  6. Jared
  7. Enoch
  8. Methuselah
  9. Lamech
  10. Noah
  11. Shem
  12. Arphaxad
  13. Shelah
  14. Eber
  15. Peleg
  16. Reu
  17. Serug
  18. Nahor
  19. Terah
  20. Abraham
  21. Isaac
  22. Jacob
  23. Judah
  24. Perez
  25. Hezron
  26. Ram
  27. Amminadab
  28. Nahshon
  29. Salmon
  30. Boaz
  31. Obed
  32. Jesse
  33. David
  34. Solomon
  35. Rehoboam
  36. Abijah
  37. Asa
  38. Jehoshaphat
  39. Joram
  40. Uzziah
  41. Jotham
  42. Ahaz
  43. Hezekiah
  44. Manasseh
  45. Amon
  46. Josiah
  47. Jeconiah
  48. Shealtiel
  49. Zerubbabel
  50. Abiud
  51. Eliakim
  52. Azor
  53. Zadok
  54. Akim
  55. Eliud
  56. Eleazar
  57. Matthan
  58. Jacob (father of Joseph)
  59. Joseph (husband of Mary)
  60. Yahshua

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.

  1. Adam
  2. Seth
  3. Enosh
  4. Kenan
  5. Mahalalel
  6. Jared
  7. Enoch
  8. Methuselah
  9. Lamech
  10. Noah
  11. Shem
  12. Arphaxad
  13. Cainan
  14. Shelah
  15. Eber
  16. Peleg
  17. Reu
  18. Serug
  19. Nahor
  20. Terah
  21. Abraham
  22. Isaac
  23. Jacob
  24. Judah
  25. Perez
  26. Hezron
  27. Aram
  28. Amminadab
  29. Nahshon
  30. Salmon
  31. Boaz
  32. Obed
  33. Jesse
  34. David
  35. Nathan
  36. Mattatha
  37. Menan
  38. Melea
  39. Eliakim
  40. Jonan
  41. Joseph
  42. Judah
  43. Simeon
  44. Levi
  45. Matthat
  46. Jorim
  47. Eliezer
  48. Jose
  49. Er
  50. Elmodam
  51. Cosam
  52. Addi
  53. Melchi
  54. Neri
  55. Shealtiel
  56. Zerubbabel
  57. Rhesa
  58. Joanan
  59. Judah
  60. Joseph
  61. Semein
  62. Mattathias
  63. Maath
  64. Naggai
  65. Esli
  66. Nahum
  67. Amos
  68. Mattathias
  69. Joseph
  70. Jannai
  71. Melchi
  72. Levi
  73. Matthat
  74. Heli
  75. Joseph (as was supposed)
  76. Yahshua

Strong’s

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Ἰούδας G2455

Ioúdas

Judas (i.e. Jehudah), the name of ten Israelites; also of the posterity of one of them and its region

of Hebrew origin (H03063);

KJV glosses: Juda(-h, -s); Jude

Thayer’s

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

Ἰούδας G2455

Ioúdas

Ἰούδας, Ιουδα, dative Ιουδα, accusative, Ιουδαν (Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ (יְהוּדָה, from the Hoph. of יָדָה, praised, celebrated; see Gen 29:35), Judah or Judas (see below);

1. the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob: Mat 1:2; Luk 3:33; Rev 5:5; Rev 7:5; by metonymy, the tribe of Judah, the descendants of Judah: Heb 7:14; ὁ οἶκος Ιουδα, citizens of the kingdom of Judah, Heb 8:8.

2. Judah (or Judas) an unknown ancestor of Christ: Luk 3:26 R G L.

3. another of Christ's ancestors, equally unknown: Luk 3:30.

4. Judas surnamed the Galilaean, a man who at the time of the census under Quirinus (better Quirinius), excited a revolt in Galilee: Act 5:37 (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 1, 1, where he is called ὁ Γαυλανιτης because he came from the city Gamala, near the Lake of Galilee in lower Gaulanitis; but he is called also ὁ Γαλιλαῖος by Josephus, Antiquities 18, 1, 6; 20, 5, 2; b. j. 2, 8, 1).

5. (Judas) a certain Jew of Damascus: Act 9:11.

6. Judas surnamed Ἰσκαριώτης (which see), of Carioth (from the city of Kerioth, Jos 15:25; Jeremiah 31:41; Amo 2:2; (but see BB. DD. under the word ); some manuscripts in Joh 6:71 (cf. Tdf.'s note at the passage cited); Joh 12:4, read ἀπό Καριωτου instead of Ἰσκαριώτης), the son of one Simon (who in Joh 6:71 L T Tr WH; T Tr WH, is himself surnamed Ἰσκαριώτης), one of the apostles of Jesus, who betrayed him: Mat 10:4; Mat 26:14; Mat 26:25; Mat 26:47; Mat 27:3; Mar 3:19; Mar 14:10; Mar 14:43; Luk 6:16; Luk 22:3; Luk 22:47; Joh 6:71; Joh 12:4; Joh 13:2; Joh 13:26; Joh 13:29; Joh 18:2 ff,; Act 1:16; Act 1:25. Matthew (Mat 27:5), Luke (Act 1:18), and Papias (cf. Wendt in Meyer's Apostelgesch. 5te Aufl., p. 23 note) in a fragment quoted by Oecumenius on Act 1:18 differ in the account of his death (see B. D. American edition under the word); on his avarice cf. Joh 12:6.

7. Judas, surnamed Barsabas (or Barsabbas, see the word), a prophet of the church at Jerusalem: Act 15:22; Act 15:27; Act 15:32.

8. Judas, an apostle, Joh 14:22, who is called Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου in Luk 6:16; Act 1:13 (see Ἰάκωβος, 4), and, as it should seem, was surnamed Lebbaeus or Thaddaeus (see Θαδδαῖος). According to the opinion of the church that he wrote the Epistle of Jude.

9. Judas, the brother of our Lord: Mat 13:55; Mar 6:3, and very probably Jud 1:1; see Ἰάκωβος, 3.