Judah

Fourth son of the patriarch Jacob. The great tribe of his descendants, being forsaken by the other tribes, ab. 975 B.C., subsisted as a separate kingdom for ab. 400 years, and ultimately became the stock of the Jewish race. IMG:content-0884.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small] rioth; only one of the Apostles proceeding from Judæa, the others being Galilæans.