[Carry_Okie]

“At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath:

The Hebrew from the Tanakh is not "Jews" but Y'hudim, or "Judeans."

Nice try, but it is perilous to take things too literally when working from a translation.

[dervish]

Nice try to you. What according to you is the Hebrew word for "Jew?" According to you there is no Hebrew word for Jew since it all means Judean.

I don't have to work from a translation. I am fluent in Hebrew.

So from Megillat Esther:

ה אִישׁ יְהוּדִי, הָיָה בְּשׁוּשַׁן הַבִּירָה; וּשְׁמוֹ מָרְדֳּכַי, בֶּן יָאִיר בֶּן-שִׁמְעִי בֶּן-קִישׁ--אִישׁ יְמִינִי.

So here when the word יְהוּדִ is used for Mordechai who at the end of the Pasuk is called אִישׁ יְמִינִי , from the tribe of Benjamin, what is the meaning of "Y'hudi" there?