who are the tribe of judah in the bible
Tribe of Judah According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Judah (Hebrew: שֵׁבֶט יְהוּדָה‬, Modern Shevet Yehuda Tiberian Sheveṭ Yəhûḏā, "Praise") was one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.
Twelve Tribes of Israel Deuteronomy 33:6–25 and Judges 5:14–18 present parallel listings of the twelve tribes:
Tribe of Judah According to the Torah, the tribe consisted of descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and of Leah. Some Biblical scholars view this as an etiological myth created in hindsight to explain the tribe's name and connect it to the other tribes in the Israelite confederation.[17][18] With Leah as a matriarch, Biblical scholars regard the tribe as having been believed by the text's authors to have been part of the original Israelite confederation.[18]
Book of Obadiah In Judaism and Christianity, its authorship is attributed to a prophet who lived in the Assyrian Period and named himself in the first verse, Obadiah. His name means “servant of Yahweh”.