Judah = "he shall be praised"

 1) the fourth son of the patriarch Jacob
 2) the tribe that were the offspring of Judah
 3) the region occupied by the tribe
 4) a city of the tribe of Judah, conjectured to be Hebron, which was
    a city assigned to the priests and located in the hill country,
    and the native place of John the Baptist according to Jewish tradition