judith

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n.pr. (Bibel) Yudis
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The protagonist of the book of Judith
A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha
A female given name
A wife of Esau
{i} female first name
Legendary Jewish heroine, the central character in the Book of Judith in the Apocrypha. (The book is excluded from the Hebrew Bible.) A beautiful Jewish widow whose city is besieged by the Assyrians under their general, Holofernes, Judith leaves the city in pretended flight and foretells victory to Holofernes. Invited into his tent, she cuts off his head as he lies in a drunken sleep, and the Jews defeat the leaderless Assyrians. Probably fictional, the story may have been written in the 2nd century BC, after the end of the Maccabean revolt. Anderson Dame Judith Dench Dame Judith Olivia Jamison Judith Leyster Judith
an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench
born Dec. 9, 1934, York, Yorkshire, Eng. British actress. She made her stage debut in 1957 as Ophelia in Hamlet, and Shakespearean works became her specialty. She also performed in musical roles, starring in the London premiere of Cabaret in 1968. Among her many other notable credits were the 1981-84 TV series A Fine Romance and the films 84 Charing Cross Road (1986), Mrs. Brown (1997) in which she starred as Queen Victoria and Shakespeare in Love (1998, Academy Award)
judith

    Hyphenation

    Ju·dith

    Turkish pronunciation

    cudıth

    Pronunciation

    /ˈʤo͞odəᴛʜ/ /ˈʤuːdəθ/

    Etymology

    () From Hebrew "woman from Judea, Jewess"
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