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Jehudi
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Jehudi: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
son of Nethaniah; messenger and scribe of the court of King Jehoiakim
Hebrew
Strongs #03065: ydwhy Y@huwdiy
Jehudi = "Jew"1) son of Nethaniah and servant of king Jehoiakim
3065 Yhuwdiy yeh-hoo-dee'
the same as 3064; Jehudi, an Israelite:-Jehudi.see HEBREW for 03064
Jehudi [EBD]
a Jew, son of Nethaniah. He was sent by the princes to invite Baruch to read Jeremiah's roll to them (Jer. 36:14, 21).
JEHUDI [SMITH]
(a Jew), son of Nethaniah, a man employed by the princes of Jehoiakim?s court to fetch Baruch to read Jeremiah?s denunciation, (Jeremiah 36:14) and then by the king to fetch the volume itself and read it to him. vs. (Jeremiah 36:21,23) (B.C. 605.)JEHUDI [ISBE]
JEHUDI - je-hu'-di (yehudhi, properly "a Jew"): An officer of King Jehoiakim (Jer 36:14,21,23). He was sent by the princes to summon Baruch to read the roll containing Jeremiah's prophecies to them; he afterward read them to the king, who destroyed them. His name is noteworthy, as also is that of his grandfather Cushi (i.e. "Ethiopian"), and the two are said to point to a foreign origin.