Encyclopedia of The Bible – Judith
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Judith

JUDITH jōō’ dĭth (יְהוּדִ֔ית, a Jewess), a wife of Esau, daughter of Beeri the Hitt. (Gen 26:34).

2. The heroine of the Book of Judith in the OT Apoc. She killed Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar, and thus saved Jerusalem and her countrymen.