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(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.