And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
Judah, х Yªhuwdaah (H3063)] - i:e., praise or thanksgiving. [It is a Chaldeeism derived from the Hiphil of yaadaah (H3027), to praise, of which the common form is yowdeh, in the present, and howdaah, in the past (Rosenmuller's 'Scholia,' in loco).]