Fauchion
Fauchion
i.e. FALCHION, is the rendering (Jdt 13:6; Jdt 16:9) of the Greek ; (which the Romans also Latinized acinaces), a Persian term for the short sword, usually represented as a straight, thick poniard on the Persepolitan figures (see Smith, Dict. of Class. Ant. s.v. Acinaces), and therefore appropriately employed in the apocryphal account of the decapitation of Holofernes by the Hebrewess. SEE SWORD.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Fauchion
FAUCHION (Jdt 13:6 AV [Note: Authorized Version.] ; RV [Note: Revised Version.] scimitar).The Eng. word denoted originally a broad sword more or less curved on the convex side; but in later use and in poetry it signified a sword of any kind.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Fauchion
foshun. See SCIMITAR.