Genesis 38:2

And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite ,.... Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Ben Gersom, interpret it a "merchant", to take off the disgrace of his falling in love with, and marrying a Canaanitish woman, which was forbidden by his ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and which his father avoided:

whose name was Shuah ; not the name of the woman he married, but the name of her father, as appears from Genesis 38:12 ; and who very probably was a man of note in the country:

and he took her ; to be his wife, with her and her father's consent, not by force:

and went in unto her ; cohabited with her as his wife.