JEHUDI jĭ hu’ dī (יְהוּדִ֡י, Jew). An officer of King Jehoiakim who was sent to Baruch to have him read the prophecies of Jeremiah to the princes of Judah, and who himself afterward read them to the king (Jer 36:14, 21, 23). His grandfather’s name was Cushi, suggesting that Jehudi was a naturalized Judean.