JEHUDI (generally = a Jew, but appears to be a proper name in Jer_36:14; Jer_36:21; Jer_36:23).An officer of Jehoiakim, at whose summons Baruch read to the princes of Judah the roll of Jeremiahs prophecies, and who was afterwards himself employed to read the roll to the king.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
The princes' ready tool in fetching Baruch to read Jeremiah's (Jer_36:14; Jer_36:21-23) denunciations; then employed by Jehoiakim to bring and read the roll, which the king cut and burned. (See JEHOIAKIM.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jehu'di. (a Jew). Son of Nethaniah, a man employed, by the princes of Jehoiakim's court, to fetch Baruch to read Jeremiah's denunciation, Jer_36:14, and then, by the king, to fetch the volume itself and read it to him. Jer_36:21; Jer_36:23. (B.C. 605).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jē̇-hū?di (יהוּדי, yehūdhı̄, properly ?a Jew?): An officer of King Jehoiakim (Jer_36:14, Jer_36:21, Jer_36:23). He was sent by the princes to summon Baruch to read the roll containing Jeremiah's prophecies to them; he afterward read them to the king, who destroyed them. His name is noteworthy, as also is that of his grandfather Cushi (i.e. ?Ethiopian?), and the two are said to point to a foreign origin.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jehudi
(Hebrew Yehudi', יְהוּדַי, a Jew, as often; (Sept. Ι᾿ουδείν v.r. Ι᾿ουδίν, Ι᾿ουδί, Ι᾿ουδεί) son of Nethaniah, sent by the princes to invite Baruch to read Jeremiah's roll to them, and who afterwards read it to the king himself (Jer_36:14; Jer_36:21). B.C. 605.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.