judith

Noun
  1. Jewish heroine in one of the books of the Apocrypha;
    She saved her people by decapitating the Assyrian general Holofernes (synset 110245889)
    referred to in: apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
    is an instance of: heroine - a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds
  2. An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people (synset 106471504)
    is an instance of: book - a major division of a long written composition
    is a part of: apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
    same as: book of judith

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