Judith

Judith is named once as one of Esau's Hittite wives, taken when he was forty years old. The genealogical list in Genesis 36 — which names Esau's wives a second time — does not preserve the name Judith, and the figure who corresponds to her in that list appears under a different name.

Esau's Hittite Wife

When Esau is forty, he marries two Hittite women: "Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite" (Gen 26:34). The marriage is reported without comment on Judith herself; she is identified only by her father, Beeri, and her people.

The Genealogical Re-Listing

When Esau's wives are catalogued again in the toledot of Edom, the names shift: "Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite" (Gen 36:2). Beeri's daughter is not called Judith here. The two lists do not align cleanly — neither Judith's name nor her father Beeri carries forward into the Edomite genealogy.