# Judith
## English

* Book of Judith on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Judith on Wikisource.Wikisource
* Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

### Etymology

Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒuːdɪθ/ enPR: jo͞o'dəth
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːdɪθ

### Proper noun

Judith
* A female given name from Hebrew.
** 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.
* A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
* (biblical) The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.
* (biblical) A wife of Esau.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.

#### Derived terms

* Judith Basin County

#### Related terms

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

#### Descendants

* → Cebuano: Judith

#### See also

* Judah
* Jude

## Cebuano
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Judith
* a female given name from English [in turn from Hebrew]
* the book of Judith
* (biblical) the protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith
* (biblical) a wife of Esau

## Danish
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Judith
* a female given name, equivalent to English Judith

#### Related terms

* Judit
* Jytte

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʒy.dit/

### Proper noun

Judith f
* Judith; the Book of Judith
* a female given name

## German
### Alternative forms

* Judit

### Etymology

From Latin Judith, from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (yəhūḏīṯ, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjuːdɪt/
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Judith f (proper noun, genitive Judiths or Judith, plural Judithen or Judiths)
* a female given name, equivalent to English Judith

#### Derived terms

* Jutta (perhaps)

## Norwegian
### Etymology

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

### Proper noun

Judith
* a female given name, popular spelling variant of the biblical Judit

## Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Judith c (genitive Judiths)
* a female given name, variant of Judit