Judith
EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.
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Proper nounEdit
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.
- 1833 The New Monthly Magazine, E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):
- A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
- The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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.
- A wife of Esau.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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.
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- → Cebuano: Judith
See alsoEdit
CebuanoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English Judith, from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).
Proper nounEdit
Judith
- a female given name from Hebrew
- the book of Judith
- (biblical) the protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith
- (biblical) a wife of Esau
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”)
Proper nounEdit
Judith
- A female given name, equivalent to English Judith.
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).
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Judith f
- Judith; the Book of Judith
- A female given name
GermanEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Latin Judith, from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (yəhūḏīṯ, “woman from Judea, Jewess”).
PronunciationEdit
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Judith f (proper noun, genitive Judiths or Judith, plural Judithen or Judiths)
- A female given name, equivalent to English Judith
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- Jutta (perhaps)
NorwegianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”)
Proper nounEdit
Judith
- A female given name, popular spelling variant of the biblical Judit.
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”)
Proper nounEdit
Judith c (genitive Judiths)
- A female given name, variant of Judit.