Meaning
Judas (1): surnamed Barsabas, a leading member of the apostolic church at Jerusalem, (Acts 15:22) endued with the gift of prophesy, ver. (Acts 15:32) chosen with Silas to accompany Paul and Barnabas as delegates to the church at Antioch. (A.D. 47.) Later, Judas went back to Jerusalem. (2): the Greek form of the Hebrew name Judah, occurring in the LXX, and the New Testament.
1. The patriarch Judah. (Matt 1:2; Matt 1:3)
2. A man residing at Damascus, in "the street which is called Straight," in whose house Saul of Tarsus lodged after his miraculous conversion. (Acts 9:11)
