Judith n 1: Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha; she saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes 2: an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people [syn: {Judith}, {Book of Judith}]
Judith Jewess, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and one of Esau's wives (Gen. 26:34), elsewhere called Aholibamah (36:2-14).