Judith vs Judy - What's the difference?
judith | judy | Related terms |
* 1833 The New Monthly Magazine , E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names"):
A book of the Old Testament of some Christian Bibles; a book of the Vulgate Apocrypha.
The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
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(The name of) A wife of Esau.
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Judy is a related term of judith.
As proper nouns the difference between judith and judy
is that judith is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew} while Judy is a diminutive of Judith, also used as a formal female given name.judith
English
(Book of Judith)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith , may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such "fanciful and romantic" names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane.
- And Judith was left along in the tent, and Holofernes lying along upon his bed: for he was filled with wine. --- And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might, and she took away his head from him.
- And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.