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Similarly, you may ask, what does the name Judith mean in the Bible?
???????? (Yehudit) meaning "Jewish woman", feminine of ???????? (yehudi), ultimately referring to a person from the tribe of Judah. In the Old Testament Judith is one of the Hittite wives of Esau. This is also the name of the main character of the apocryphal Book of Judith.
Regarding this, is Judith biblical name?
Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name ????????? or Yehudit, meaning "woman of Judea". Judith appeared in the Old Testament as one of Esau's wives, while the deuterocanonical Book of Judith deals with a different Judith.
They are still in the Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. They were removed from the Protestant Bible because of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the US. That's the short answer.