יהודית

Hebrew

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew, Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /je.huˈdit/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /jă.huˈðiθ/

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Adjective

יְהוּדִית • (y'hudít)

1. feminine singular indefinite form of יְהוּדִי (y'hudí).

Proper noun

יְהוּדִית • (y'hudít) f

1. (biblical, obsolete) Hebrew
   • Tanach, Isaiah 36:11, with translation of the New International Version:

     ...דַּבֶּר-נָא אֶל-עֲבָדֶיךָ אֲרָמִית כִּי שֹׁמְעִים אֲנָחְנוּ וְאַל-תְּדַבֵּר עִמָּנוּ יְהוּדִית בְּאָזְנֵי הָעָם אֲשֶׁר עַל-הַחֹמָה.

     ...dabber-ná el-'avadécha aramít ki šomə'ím anáḥnu vəal-tədabbḗr 'immánu yəhudít bəoznḗ ha'ám ašer 'al-haḥomá.

     ...Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it; don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.

2. Yiddish, Ladino, and any of the Western European Languages mixed with Hebrew words spoken by the Diaspora
3. a female given name, Yehudit, equivalent to English Judith
4. (biblical) Judith (the protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith)
5. (biblical) Judith (a wife of Esau)

Related terms

• יהודה (y'hudá)

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ιουδίθ (Ioudíth)
  • → Old Armenian: Յուդիթ (Yuditʻ)
    • Armenian: Հուդիթ (Huditʻ)
  • → Greek: Ιουδίθ (Ioudíth) (semi-learned)
  • → Latin: Iudith, Judith
    • → Chinese: 友弟德 (Yǒudìdé); ⇒ 友弟德傳／友弟德传 (Yǒudìdézhuàn)
    • → Czech: Judita
    • → Danish: Judith
    • → English: Judith
    • → Faroese: Judit
    • → French: Judith
    • → Galician: Xudite, Xudit
    • → German: Judith, Judit
    • → Hungarian: Judit
    • → Irish: Iúidit; ⇒ Leabhar Iúidit
    • → Italian: Giuditta
      • → Maltese: Ġuditta; ⇒ Ktieb ta’ Ġuditta
    • → Norwegian: Judith, Judit
    • → Polish: Judyta; ⇒ Księga Judyty
    • → Portuguese: Judite
    • → Romanian: Iudita
    • → Russian: Джу́дит (Džúdit)
    • → Slovak: Judita
    • → Spanish: Judit
    • → Swedish: Judith, Judit
  • → Old Church Slavonic:
    • → Russian: Юди́фь (Judífʹ), Иуди́фь (Iudífʹ)
• → English: Yehudit, Yehudis (learned)
• → Finnish: Jehudit (learned)
• → German: Jehudit (learned)
• → Urdu: یہودیت (yahūdīt) (learned)
• → Yiddish: יהודית (yehudes) (learned)

References

• H3066 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• H3067 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible