Judith
noun
Ju·dith ˈjü-dəth 
1
: the Jewish heroine who saves the city of Bethulia in the book of Judith
2
: a book of Scripture included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and in the Protestant Apocrypha see Bible Table
Word History
Etymology
Late Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yĕhūdhīth
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1