Judith

English

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Etymology

From Hebrew "woman from Judea, Jewess"

Pronunciation

• /jo͞o'dəth/ IPA: /ˈdʒuːdəθ/, SAMPA: /"dZu:d@T/
• Rhymes: -uːdəθ

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name
2. A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
3. (biblical) The protagonist of the book of Judith.
4. (biblical) A wife of Esau.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Judith 13:2,8:

  And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Genesis 26:34-35:

  And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

• 1833 The New Monthly Magazine, E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):

  The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.

Related terms

• Jud.
• pet forms: Judie, Judy, Jodi, Jodie, Jody

Translations

female given name

Armenian: Հուդիթ (hy) (Hudit') Czech: Judita (cs) Danish: Judith (da) French: Judith (fr) German: Judith (de) Greek: Ιουδίθ (el) (Ioudíth)

Italian: Giuditta (it) Maltese: Ġuditta Norwegian: Judith (no) Polish: Judyta (pl) f. Swedish: Judit (sv)

book of the Bible

Armenian: Հուդիթ (hy) (Hudit') French: Judith (fr) German: Judit (de) Greek: Ιουδίθ (el) (Ioudíth) Italian: Giuditta (it)

Maltese: Il-Ktieb ta' Ġuditta Norwegian: Judit (no) Polish: Księga Judyty (pl) f. Swedish: Judit (sv)

wife of Esau

Finnish: Jehudit (fi) French: Judith (fr) German: Jehudit (de)

Italian: Giuditta (it) Swedish: Judit (sv)

See also

• Judah
• Jude

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Danish

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Judith.

Related terms

• Judit
• Jytte

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French

Proper noun

Judith

1. (biblical) Judith; the Book of Judith.
2. A female given name.

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German

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Judith.

Related terms

• Judit
• Jutta

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, popular spelling variant of the biblical Judit.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Judit.