Yes. Jude is an English form of Judas, the Greek form of the Hebrew Yehudah, or Judah. English Bibles use it for the writer of the Letter of Jude, who calls himself “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (Jude 1). The spelling sets him apart from Judas Iscariot, whose name is the same in Greek. Is Jude the same name as Judas and Judah? Yes. Yehudah was the name of the fourth son of Jacob and Leah.…

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