Ehud

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The origin of the name Ehud is Hebrew

This is how Ehud is written in Hebrew:

אֵהוּד=Ehuwd

The  biblical meaning of the name Ehud Is:

According to: meaning:
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
hitchcock’s dictionary of bible names (1869)
“he that praises“
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius
Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon (1846)
“joining together”
James Strong
Strong’s Concordance (1890)
“unity“

In the Bible:

Ehud was a judge of Israel

The name Ehud appears in the bible in the following verses:

Judges 3:15 KJV
“But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.”

Judges 3:16 KJV
“But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.”

Judges 3:20 KJV
“And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.”

Judges 3:21 KJV
“And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:”

Judges 3:23 KJV
“Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.”

Judges 3:26 KJV
“And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.”

Judges 4:1 KJV
“And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.”

1 Chronicles 7:10 KJV
“The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.”