Associations to the word «Judith»

Wiktionary

JUDITH, proper noun. A female given name
JUDITH, proper noun. A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
JUDITH, proper noun. The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
JUDITH, proper noun. The name of A wife of Esau.

Dictionary definition

JUDITH, noun. Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes.
JUDITH, noun. An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne