Difference between revisions of "Judith"

<p> '''Ju'dith.''' ''(Jewess,'' or ''Praised).'' </p> <p> 1. The daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and wife of Esau. &nbsp;Genesis 26:34. (B.C. 1797). </p> <p> 2. The heroine of the apocryphal book which bears her name, who appears as an ideal type of piety, &nbsp;Judith 8:6, beauty, &nbsp;Judith 11:21, courage and chastity. &nbsp;Judith 16:22. ff. </p>

<p> <strong> JUDITH. 1. </strong> A wife of Esau, daughter of [[Beeri]] the Hittite (&nbsp; [[Genesis]] 26:34; cf. &nbsp; Genesis 36:2 ). <strong> 2. </strong> Daughter of Merari, of the tribe of [[Simeon]] (&nbsp; Genesis 8:1 [cf. &nbsp; Numbers 1:6 ] hen 9:2); widow of Manassea of the same tribe. For the book of which she is the heroine see art. Apocrypha, § <strong> 9 </strong> . </p>

<p> ("the praised one".) Esau's wife, daughter of Beeri the Hittite (&nbsp;Genesis 26:34). (See [[Aholibamah]] ; ESAU; BEERI.) </p>

<p> Daughter of Beeri a Hittite, and wife of Esau. &nbsp;Genesis 26:34 . See BASHEMATH. </p>

<p> (Heb. Yehudith,' יְהוּדַית '', Jewess;'' Septuag. Ι᾿ουδίθ )'','' the name of two females; properly the feminine form of יְהוּדַי, Judoeus (comp. &nbsp;Jeremiah 36:14; &nbsp;Jeremiah 36:21); but in the passage of Genesis it is generally taken as the correlative of Judah. i.e. "praised." </p> <p> '''1.''' The daughter of Beeri, the Hittite and one of the first two wives of Esau (&nbsp;Genesis 26:34). She is elsewhere more correctly called AHOLIBAMAH, the daughter of [[Anah]] the [[Horite]] (&nbsp;Genesis 36:2-14). (See [[Esau]]). </p> <p> '''2.''' The heroine of the apocryphal book which bears her name, who appears as an ideal type of piety (&nbsp;Judith 8:6), beauty (&nbsp;Judith 11:21), courage, and chastity (&nbsp;Judith 16:22 sq.). Her supposed descent from Simeon (&nbsp;Judith 9:2), and the manner in which she refers to his cruel deed (&nbsp;Genesis 34:25 sq.), mark the conception of the character, which evidently belongs to a period of stern and perilous conflict. The most unscrupulous daring (ch. 13) is combined with zealous ritualism (&nbsp;Judith 12:1 sq.), and faith is turned to action rather than to supplication (&nbsp;Judith 8:31 sq.). [[Clement]] of Rome (Ep. 1:55) assigns to Judith the epithet given to Jael'(Ι᾿οτδεὶθ ἡ μακαρία )'';'' and Jerome sees in her exploit the image of the victory of the Church over the power of evil (Ep. 79:11, p. 508; Judith... in typo Ecclesiae diabolum capite truncavit; compare Ep. 22:21, p. 105). According to the Greek text, Judith was the rich widow of [[Manasses]] of Bethulia; to which the [[Vulgate]] adds that she was the daughter of Merari, or more properly Beari (בארי ), as the Hebrew recension has it; the latter also places her in the days of Maccabaeus, which is undoubtedly correct. (See [[Book Of Judith]]). </p>

<p> ''''' jōō´dith ''''' (for etymology, see next article): </p> <p> (1) A wife of Esau, daughter of Beeri the Hittite (&nbsp;Genesis 26:34 ). </p> <p> (2) The heroine of the Book of Judith in Apocrypha - a pious, wealthy, courageous, and patriotic widow who delivered Jerusalem and her countrymen from the assault of Holofernes, the general of [[Nebuchadnezzar]] who had arranged the expedition which aimed at making Nebuchadnezzar the object of universal human worship. </p> <p> The 8th and following chapters of the book describe her actions which resulted in the cutting off of the head of Holofernes, the rout of the [[Assyrian]] army, and the deliverance of the Jews. See Judith , Book Of . </p>

<p> A wealthy, beautiful, and pious Jewish widow who, as recorded in one of the books of the Apocrypha called after her, entered, with only a single maid as attendant, the camp of the Assyrian army under Holofernes, that lay investing Bethulia, her native place; won the confidence of the chief, persuaded him to drink while alone with him in his tent till he was brutally intoxicated, cut off his head, and making good her escape, suspended it from the walls of the place, with the issue of the utter rout of his army by a sally of the townsfolk. </p>