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BOOK OF JUDITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Book of Judith mean? 

BOOK OF JUDITH (noun)
  The noun BOOK OF JUDITH has 1 sense:

1. an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her peopleplay

  Familiarity information: BOOK OF JUDITH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BOOK OF JUDITH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Judith; Judith

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Book of Judith" 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)


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