- book of judith by WordNet
nounAn Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people.synonyms: Judith
- Judith by Shelby Murray
... the heroine of one of the books of the Apocrypha, who saved her native town by decapitating Holofernes the book recounting this episode
- Judith by Vanessa Butler
Legendary Jewish heroine, the central character in the Book of Judith in the Apocrypha. (The book is excluded from the Hebrew Bible.) A beautiful Jewish widow whose city is besieged by the Assyrians under their general, Holofernes, Judith leaves the city in pretended flight and foretells victory to Holofernes...
- Judith by Christian Hernandez
early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, and placed in the Apocrypha of Protestant Bibles. It recounts an attack on the Jews by an army led by Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar's general. Bethulia, a ...
- Judith by Josiah Jenkins
saved her city from the onslaught of Holofernes by beheading him during a drunken sleep. [Apocrypha: Judith 13:4-10. ] See: Heroism