Achior
Achior
(, for Heb. Achier’, , brother [i.e. full] of light; comp. Num 34:27, where the Sept. has for Ahihud, apparently reading ), the name given in the Apocrypha as that of the sheik of the Ammonites, who joined Holofernes with auxiliary troops during his expedition into Egypt, and who, when called upon to account for the opposition made by the inhabitants of Bethulia to that general, did so in a speech recounting the history of the country, and the national abhorrence of foreign idolatry (Jdt 5:1-24). According to the narrative, this so incensed the haughty general and his associates that they demanded the life of Achior by exposure to his enemies, who thereupon befriended and preserved him (chap. 6) till he was eventually released on the death of Holofernes, and then embraced Judaism (chap. 14). SEE JUDITH.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Achior
ACHIOR (brother of light).A general of the Ammonites (Jdt 5:5 etc.), afterwards converted to Judaism (ch. 14).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Achior
aki-or (, Achior): General of the Ammonites, who spoke in behalf of Israel before Holofernes, the Assyrian general (Judith 5:5ff). Holofernes ordered him bound and delivered at Bethulia to the Israelites (Judith 6), who received him gladly and with honor. Afterward he became a proselyte, was circumcised, and joined to Israel (Judith 14). In Num 34:27 it is the Septuagint reading for Ahihud, and in the Hebrew would be , ‘ak’or, brother of light.