n.
Pronunciation: ' jü-d ə th
Function: noun
Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Y ĕ h ū dh ī th
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