After the split Rehoboam became king of the southern kingdom of Judah.

Modern name for judah. The name Judah is pronounced Judas in Greek. Judah one of the 12 tribes of Israel descended from Judah who was the fourth son born to Jacob and his first wife Leah. Says the name Judah means The praise of God and is of Hebrew origin.

An article by Palestine Post writer Moshe Brilliant published a year later at first the group wanted to go with the name Judah the name of the ancient Jewish Kingdom. The same it used to be 3000 years ago. The name Judah transliterated into Greek is Ιουδα Iouda and occurs as such 7 times in the New Testament.

Its kind of like writing Charles as Carlos in Spanish. In view of the origin of the Red Hand emblem recorded in Genesis 38 and in the fact that a Red Hand thereby became one of the emblems of the descendants of Zara-Judah we have to conclude that the people who brought the Red Hand to Ulster so long ago and the Scots who later brought it to Scotland -- though coming at different times -- had a COMMON ORIGIN in the Zara branch of the Israelitish Tribe of Judah. What is the kingdom of Judah called today.

Only the Jews have been persecuted as Judah and only the Jews possess all the prophesied characteristics of Judah. A user from Kenya says the name Judah is of Hebrew origin and means Praisetranslated from Hebrew words yadah verb and Yehudah noun who was the fourth son of Jacob. Judah is a part of Israel and the capital of Isael- Jerusalem- is situated in Judah.

The current nation of Israel is still largely made up of the original southern kingdom of Judah while the tribes of the northern kingdom remain scattered. The equally confusing answer is. If Judas Iscariot was actually transliterated as Judah.

Praised though he may be Judah is not a super popular name. Modern Jews moreover trace their lineage to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin absorbed by Judah or to the tribe or group of clans of religious functionaries known as Levites. It is disputed whether the name Judah was originally that of the tribe or the territory it occupied and which was transposed from which.