Holofernes
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... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia HOLOFERNES. hol-o-fur ... of Bethulia. There
is no notice of Holofernes except in the Book of Judith. The ...
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Judith (1 Occurrence)
... of Judith in Apocrypha-a pious, wealthy, courageous, and patriotic widow who delivered
Jerusalem and her countrymen from the assault of Holofernes, the general ...
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Achior
... a'-ki-or (Achior): General of the Ammonites, who spoke in behalf of Israel before
Holofernes, the Assyrian general (Judith 5:5). Holofernes ordered him bound ...
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Konae
... which we have in the King James Version "the villages." The name occurs in the account
of the measures taken to secure the country against Holofernes (Judith 4 ...
/k/konae.htm - 6k

Ocina
... os'-i-na, ok'-i-na (Okeina): A town on the Phoenician coast South of Tyre, mentioned
only in Judith 2:28, in the account of the campaign of Holofernes in Syria ...
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Jemnaan
... jem'-na-an (Iemnaan): A city on the coast of Palestine; mentioned among those affected
by the expedition of Holofernes (Judith 2:28; 3:1;). The name is used ...
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Joakim
... in the days of Judith who, along with "the ancients of the children of Israel,"
welcomed the heroine back to the city after the death of Holofernes (Judith 4 ...
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Geba (22 Occurrences)
... Nehemiah 11:31). (2) (Gaibai): Between a fortress so named and Scythopolis
(Beisan), Holofernes pitched his camp (Judith 3:10). On the ...
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Rasses
... Old Latin Thiras et Rasis): The children of Rasses are mentioned with Put, Lud and
the children of Ishmael as having been subdued by Holofernes (Judith 2:23). ...
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Drunkenness (10 Occurrences)
... Samuel 11:13), Amnon (2 Samuel 13:28), Elah, king of Israel (1 Kings 16:9), Benhadad,
king of Syria, and his confederates (1 Kings 20:16), Holofernes (Judith 13 ...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary
Holofernes

or more correctly OLOFERNES, was, according to the book of Judith, a general of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians., Judith 2:4, who was slain by the Jewish heroine Judith during the siege of Bethulia. (B.C. 350.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
HOLOFERNES

hol-o-fur'-nez (Olophernes): According to the Book of Judith, chief captain of Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Assyrians (Judith 2:4), who was commissioned to make war upon the West country and to receive from the inhabitants the usual tokens of complete submission, earth and water. The object of the expedition of Holofernes, who thus became the typical persecutor of the Jews, was to compel men everywhere to worship Nebuchadnezzar. He was slain by Judith, the heroine of the book of that name, during the siege of Bethulia. There is no notice of Holofernes except in the Book of Judith. The termination of the word would seem to indicate a Persian origin for the name. The Holofernes of Shakespeare and Rabelais is in no way connected with the deeds of the Holofernes of the Apocrypha.

J. Hutchison

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