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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Judith

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: Yes
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: Yes
  • Included in Websters: No
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Judith

Jewess, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and one of Esau's wives (Genesis 26:34), elsewhere called Aholibamah (36:2-14).


Hitchcock's Names Dictionary
Judith

same as Judah


Naves Topical Index
Judith

A wife of Esau
Genesis 26:34

Called Aholibamah
Genesis 36:2


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Judith

(Jewess , or praised).

  1. The daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and wife of Esau. (Genesis 26:34) (B.C. 1797.)
  2. The heroine of the apocryphal book which bears her name, who appears as an ideal type of piety, Judith 8.6, beauty, ch. 11.21, courage and chastity. ch. 16.22 ff.


Smith's Bible Dictionary
Judith, the Book of

one of the books of the Apocrypha, belongs to the earliest specimens of historical fiction. As to its authorship it belongs to the Maccabean period, B.C. 175-135, which it reflects not only in its general spirit, but even in its smaller traits.