Judith definition

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In the Bible, a Jewish heroine who rescued her people by slaying an Assyrian general.
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(name, person, proper) A feminine name: dim. Judy.
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A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
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The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
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The name of A wife of Esau.
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(person) A Jewish woman who saved her people by killing Holofernes.
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A book of the Apocrypha telling her story.
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A female given name.
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Origin of judith

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

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Judith Sentence Examples

  • It appears from Judith viii.

  • His mother, Judith Porten, was the daughter of a London merchant.

  • Among the principal examples are " Roman Triumphs " (not the same compositions as the Hampton Court pictures), " A Bacchanal Festival," " Hercules and Antaeus," " Marine Gods," " Judith with the Head of Holophernes," the " Deposition from the Cross," the " Entombment," the " Resurrection," the " Man of Sorrows," the " Virgin in a Grotto."

  • In 819 he married Judith, daughter of Welf I., count of Bavaria, who in 823 bore him a son Charles, afterwards called the Bald.

  • Judith made unceasing efforts to secure a kingdom for her child; and with the support of her eldest step-son Lothair, a district was carved Out for Charles in 829.

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