Judith
nombre propiocorriente en diálogos
- //ˈd͡ʒuːdɪθ//
A female given name from Hebrew.
nombre propio
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A female given name from Hebrew.
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.
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A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
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The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
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.
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A wife of Esau.
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.
Etimología
Ultimately from Hebrew יְהוּדִית (Y'hudít, “woman from Judea, Jewess”). Doublet of Yehudit.