“And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.”
She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said: this time I will praise the LORD. So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children. The fourth son marks a turning point: Leah stops naming her sons from her longing for Jacob's love and names this one from pure praise of the LORD. Judah means praise. This is the son whose tribe will carry the messianic line — the covenant heir who comes from the fourth son of the unloved wife. Matthew 1:2-3 traces Jesus' lineage through Judah. The application: the theology of Leah's naming reaches its apex in Judah — the son named not from need or hope but from praise. The woman whom Jacob did not love gave the covenant family the son through whom the Messiah comes.
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