JUDITH


Meaning of JUDITH in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈjü-dəth ]

noun

Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yĕhūdhīth

Date: before 12th century

1. : the Jewish heroine who saves the city of Bethulia in the book of Judith

2. : a book of Scripture included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and in the Protestant Apocrypha — see bible table

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