Judith
From the Hebrew Yehudit, "woman of Judah" or, more broadly, "Jewish woman".
Meaning and origin
Judith is the heroine of the deuterocanonical Book of Judith, kept in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament but left out of the Jewish and Protestant Bibles, in which a widow saves her besieged town by winning the…
How to pronounce Judith
| English (US) | JOO-dith /ˈdʒuːdɪθ/ |
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