Person Old Testament
Jehudijah
Also known as Judahite wife =ESV; wife from Judah =NIV; Jehudijah =KJV
Jehudijah (or the Judahite) was the wife of Mered and the mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel, as recorded in the genealogy of Judah. Mentioned once in Scripture, at 1 Chronicles 4:18.
Why it matters. Wife of Mered; mother of Jered, Heber, and Jekuthiel.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Jehudijah
Jehudijah, also referred to as the Judahite, is mentioned in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah in 1 Chronicles. She was the wife of Mered, a descendant of Judah. Jehudijah gave birth to three sons: Jered, who was the father of Gedor; Heber, the father of Soco; and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
- Spouse
- Mered (?)
Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
1 Chronicles (1 verse)