Judith

English

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Etymology

From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”)

Pronunciation

• /jo͞o'dəth/ IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒuːdəθ/
• Rhymes: -uːdəθ

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name
   • 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.

2. A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
3. The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
   • 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.

4. The name of A wife of Esau.
   • 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.

Related terms

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

Translations

female given name

• Armenian: Հուդիթ (Huditʿ)
• Czech: Judita
• Danish: Judith
• French: Judith (fr)
• German: Judith (de)
• Greek: Ιουδίθ (Ioudíth)
• Hebrew: יְהוּדִית f (Y'hudít)

• Italian: Giuditta
• Maltese: Ġuditta
• Norwegian: Judith (no)
• Polish: Judyta (pl) f
• Russian: Джу́дит f (Džúdit)
• Swedish: Judit
• Yiddish: יהודית f

book of the Bible

• Armenian: Հուդիթ (Huditʿ)
• French: Judith (fr)
• German: Judit
• Greek: Ιουδίθ (Ioudíth)
• Hebrew: יְהוּדִית f (Y'hudít)
• Italian: Giuditta

• Maltese: Il-Ktieb ta' Ġuditta
• Norwegian: Judit (no)
• Polish: Księga Judyty f
• Russian: Юди́фь (ru) f (Judífʹ), Иуди́фь f (Iudífʹ)
• Swedish: Judit

wife of Esau

• Finnish: Jehudit
• French: Judith (fr)
• German: Jehudit

• Hebrew: יְהוּדִית f (Y'hudít)
• Italian: Giuditta
• Swedish: Judit

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. 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.