Jud.

Jud. is the abbreviation of Judges.

Jud. is the abbreviation of Judith.

Jud. is the abbreviation of Jude.

Meaning of Judges

Judges

The seventh book of the Old Testament, and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.

Synonyms:

Jdg.

Judith

A female given name from Hebrew.
- 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...1833 The New Monthly Magazine, E. Littell, Vol. 1, January-June 1833, page 211("On Grand Christian Names")
A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
The protagonist of the Biblical book of Judith.
- 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.
A wife of Esau.
- 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.

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