The Definition of the word Judah, Tribe of

Judah, Tribe of

The Authorized Version, following the Vulgate, has this "rendering in Josh. 19:34. It has been suggested that, following" "the Masoretic punctuation, the expression should read thus, "and" "Judah; the Jordan was toward the sun-rising." The sixty cities" "(Havoth-jair, Num. 32:41) on the east of Jordan were reckoned as" "belonging to Judah, because Jair, their founder, was a Manassite" "only on his mother's side, but on his father's side of the tribe" "of Judah (1 Chr. 2:5, 21-23)."