Dictionaries :: Jehudi

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jehudi:

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).

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

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.

Nave's Topical Bible

Jehudi: A Jew

An official at Jehoiakim's court who read Jeremiah's scroll to the king,

Jer 36:14, 21, 23.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jehudi:

(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. verses (Jeremiah 36:21; 36:23). (B.C. 605)