English

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, Bible (KJV), 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, Bible (KJV), 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.

5. A male given name

Related terms

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

Translations

See also

• Judah
• Jude

Danish

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Judith.

Related terms

• Judit
• Jytte

French

Proper noun

Judith

1. Judith; the Book of Judith.
2. A female given name.

German

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, equivalent to English Judith.

Related terms

• Judit
• Jutta

Norwegian

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, popular spelling variant of the biblical Judit.

Swedish

Proper noun

Judith

1. A female given name, a spelling variant of Judit.