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subject	book bibliographic info
holophernes	Gera (2014), Judith, 7, 30, 50, 55, 67, 68, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 317, 319, 322, 339, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 420 Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 129, 132, 133, 137
holophernes, achior, talks to	Gera (2014), Judith, 52, 61, 62, 63, 64, 105, 178, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 240, 324, 351, 352, 366, 367, 414, 415, 416
holophernes, admires judith	Gera (2014), Judith, 103, 104, 288, 366, 367, 368, 380, 381, 385, 386, 466
holophernes, and artaxerxes iii	Gera (2014), Judith, 35, 36
holophernes, angry and tyrannical	Gera (2014), Judith, 63, 195, 196, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 277, 316, 349
holophernes, confides in bagoas	Gera (2014), Judith, 378, 379, 380, 381
holophernes, conquers and destroys	Gera (2014), Judith, 153, 155, 156, 160, 162, 163, 170, 186, 238, 246, 247, 283, 284, 446, 464
holophernes, death and decapitation	Gera (2014), Judith, 48, 57, 66, 131, 305, 308, 319, 333, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 404, 405, 408, 409, 412, 424, 425, 431, 432, 445, 451, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 470
holophernes, discovery of body	Gera (2014), Judith, 47, 73, 74, 75, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430
holophernes, feminized	Gera (2014), Judith, 238, 339, 345, 346, 398, 470
holophernes, manasseh, judith’s husband, and	Gera (2014), Judith, 260, 389, 394
holophernes, name	Gera (2014), Judith, 35, 59, 139
holophernes, praised by judith	Gera (2014), Judith, 350, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 363, 364, 365, 466
holophernes, replaces nebuchadnezzar	Gera (2014), Judith, 6, 7, 146, 187, 355
holophernes, silent	Gera (2014), Judith, 135, 138, 146, 160, 197
holophernes’, canopy	Gera (2014), Judith, 346, 347, 364, 398, 405, 470
holophernes’, sword, akinakes	Gera (2014), Judith, 59, 68, 250, 305, 318, 319, 391, 393, 394, 395, 398, 443, 445, 462, 470
holophernes’, tents	Gera (2014), Judith, 30, 48, 56, 59, 67, 73, 139, 217, 226, 238, 262, 330, 339, 345, 346, 347, 364, 370, 378, 384, 388, 389, 390, 391, 397, 404, 411, 413, 426, 427, 442, 443, 446, 459, 461, 470

List of validated texts:

7 validated results for "holophernes"

1. Hebrew Bible, Deuteronomy, 6.16 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Holophernes • Holophernes, angry and tyrannical

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 277; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 129

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6.16 לֹא תְנַסּוּ אֶת־יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵיכֶם כַּאֲשֶׁר נִסִּיתֶם בַּמַּסָּה׃'' None

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6.16 Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Esther, 4.16 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Holophernes • Holophernes, discovery of body • tents, Holophernes’

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 75, 330; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 137

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4.16 לֵךְ כְּנוֹס אֶת־כָּל־הַיְּהוּדִים הַנִּמְצְאִים בְּשׁוּשָׁן וְצוּמוּ עָלַי וְאַל־תֹּאכְלוּ וְאַל־תִּשְׁתּוּ שְׁלֹשֶׁת יָמִים לַיְלָה וָיוֹם גַּם־אֲנִי וְנַעֲרֹתַי אָצוּם כֵּן וּבְכֵן אָבוֹא אֶל־הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲשֶׁר לֹא־כַדָּת וְכַאֲשֶׁר אָבַדְתִּי אָבָדְתִּי׃'' None

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4.16 ’Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.’'' None

3. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 17.1-17.7 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Achior, talks to Holophernes • Holophernes • Holophernes, angry and tyrannical • Holophernes, conquers and destroys • Holophernes, discovery of body • tents, Holophernes’

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 47, 217, 247, 277; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 129, 132

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17.1 וַיִּסְעוּ כָּל־עֲדַת בְּנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל מִמִּדְבַּר־סִין לְמַסְעֵיהֶם עַל־פִּי יְהוָה וַיַּחֲנוּ בִּרְפִידִים וְאֵין מַיִם לִשְׁתֹּת הָעָם׃ ^17.1 וַיַּעַשׂ יְהוֹשֻׁעַ כַּאֲשֶׁר אָמַר־לוֹ מֹשֶׁה לְהִלָּחֵם בַּעֲמָלֵק וּמֹשֶׁה אַהֲרֹן וְחוּר עָלוּ רֹאשׁ הַגִּבְעָה׃ ^17.2 וַיָּרֶב הָעָם עִם־מֹשֶׁה וַיֹּאמְרוּ תְּנוּ־לָנוּ מַיִם וְנִשְׁתֶּה וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם מֹשֶׁה מַה־תְּרִיבוּן עִמָּדִי מַה־תְּנַסּוּן אֶת־יְהוָה׃ ^17.3 וַיִּצְמָא שָׁם הָעָם לַמַּיִם וַיָּלֶן הָעָם עַל־מֹשֶׁה וַיֹּאמֶר לָמָּה זֶּה הֶעֱלִיתָנוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם לְהָמִית אֹתִי וְאֶת־בָּנַי וְאֶת־מִקְנַי בַּצָּמָא׃ ^17.4 וַיִּצְעַק מֹשֶׁה אֶל־יְהוָה לֵאמֹר מָה אֶעֱשֶׂה לָעָם הַזֶּה עוֹד מְעַט וּסְקָלֻנִי׃ ^17.5 וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל־מֹשֶׁה עֲבֹר לִפְנֵי הָעָם וְקַח אִתְּךָ מִזִּקְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וּמַטְּךָ אֲשֶׁר הִכִּיתָ בּוֹ אֶת־הַיְאֹר קַח בְּיָדְךָ וְהָלָכְתָּ׃ ^17.6 הִנְנִי עֹמֵד לְפָנֶיךָ שָּׁם עַל־הַצּוּר בְּחֹרֵב וְהִכִּיתָ בַצּוּר וְיָצְאוּ מִמֶּנּוּ מַיִם וְשָׁתָה הָעָם וַיַּעַשׂ כֵּן מֹשֶׁה לְעֵינֵי זִקְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃ ^17.7 וַיִּקְרָא שֵׁם הַמָּקוֹם מַסָּה וּמְרִיבָה עַל־רִיב בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְעַל נַסֹּתָם אֶת־יְהוָה לֵאמֹר הֲיֵשׁ יְהוָה בְּקִרְבֵּנוּ אִם־אָיִן׃'' None

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17.1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and encamped in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people to drink. ^17.2 Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said: ‘Give us water that we may drink.’ And Moses said unto them: ‘Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye try the LORD?’ ^17.3 And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said: ‘Wherefore hast thou brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?’ ^17.4 And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying: ‘What shall I do unto this people? they are almost ready to stone me.’ ^17.5 And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. ^17.6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.’ And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. ^17.7 And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: ‘Is the LORD among us, or not?’'' None

4. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 20.11 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Achior, talks to Holophernes • Holophernes • Holophernes, conquers and destroys • Holophernes, discovery of body

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 47, 212, 247; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 133

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20.11 וַיָּרֶם מֹשֶׁה אֶת־יָדוֹ וַיַּךְ אֶת־הַסֶּלַע בְּמַטֵּהוּ פַּעֲמָיִם וַיֵּצְאוּ מַיִם רַבִּים וַתֵּשְׁתְּ הָעֵדָה וּבְעִירָם׃'' None

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20.11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.'' None

5. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 95.8-95.9 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Holophernes • Holophernes, angry and tyrannical

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 277; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 129

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95.8 אַל־תַּקְשׁוּ לְבַבְכֶם כִּמְרִיבָה כְּיוֹם מַסָּה בַּמִּדְבָּר׃ ^95.9 אֲשֶׁר נִסּוּנִי אֲבוֹתֵיכֶם בְּחָנוּנִי גַּם־רָאוּ פָעֳלִי׃'' None

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95.8 'Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness;" '^95.9 When your fathers tried Me, Proved Me, even though they saw My work.'" None

6. None, None, nan (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Holophernes • Holophernes, admires Judith • Holophernes, death and decapitation • akinakes, Holophernes’ sword

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 305, 308, 377, 386, 420; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 132, 133

7. Septuagint, Judith, 5.3, 5.23, 7.1-7.2, 7.6, 7.12, 7.17, 7.20-7.21, 7.25, 7.30-7.31, 8.12, 8.25-8.27, 8.33, 9.1-9.4, 9.8-9.11, 9.14, 11.7, 11.22, 12.7-12.10, 13.4, 13.7-13.8, 13.11-13.18, 13.20, 14.11, 14.18, 15.1-15.7, 15.9-15.10, 16.5 (2nd cent. BCE - 0th cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Achior, talks to Holophernes • Holophernes • Holophernes, admires Judith • Holophernes, angry and tyrannical • Holophernes, confides in Bagoas • Holophernes, conquers and destroys • Holophernes, death and decapitation • Holophernes, discovery of body • Holophernes, feminized • Holophernes, name • Holophernes, praised by Judith • Holophernes, replaces Nebuchadnezzar • Holophernes, silent • Manasseh, Judith’s husband, and Holophernes • akinakes, Holophernes’ sword • canopy, Holophernes’ • tents, Holophernes’

Found in books: Gera (2014), Judith, 30, 47, 48, 50, 52, 55, 56, 57, 63, 67, 68, 74, 103, 104, 105, 135, 139, 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 153, 156, 158, 159, 160, 164, 170, 186, 187, 197, 204, 205, 209, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 218, 220, 222, 238, 240, 246, 247, 250, 262, 277, 283, 284, 305, 308, 316, 317, 318, 319, 322, 324, 330, 333, 345, 346, 347, 349, 351, 353, 361, 363, 365, 370, 371, 372, 373, 378, 380, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 392, 393, 394, 396, 398, 399, 404, 405, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 426, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 442, 443, 446, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 464, 470; Smith and Stuckenbruck (2020), Testing and Temptation in Second Temple Jewish and Early Christian Texts, 129, 132, 133, 137

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5.3 and said to them, "Tell me, you Canaanites, what people is this that lives in the hill country? What cities do they inhabit? How large is their army, and in what does their power or strength consist? Who rules over them as king, leading their army? ^5.23 "For," they said, "we will not be afraid of the Israelites; they are a people with no strength or power for making war. ^7.1 The next day Holofernes ordered his whole army, and all the allies who had joined him, to break camp and move against Bethulia, and to seize the passes up into the hill country and make war on the Israelites. ^7.2 So all their warriors moved their camp that day; their force of men of war was one hundred and seventy thousand infantry and twelve thousand cavalry, together with the baggage and the foot soldiers handling it, a very great multitude. ^7.6 On the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in full view of the Israelites in Bethulia, ^7.12 Remain in your camp, and keep all the men in your forces with you; only let your servants take possession of the spring of water that flows from the foot of the mountain -- ^7.17 So the army of the Ammonites moved forward, together with five thousand Assyrians, and they encamped in the valley and seized the water supply and the springs of the Israelites. ^7.20 The whole Assyrian army, their infantry, chariots, and cavalry, surrounded them for thirty-four days, until all the vessels of water belonging to every inhabitant of Bethulia were empty; ^7.21 their cisterns were going dry, and they did not have enough water to drink their fill for a single day, because it was measured out to them to drink. ^7.25 For now we have no one to help us; God has sold us into their hands, to strew us on the ground before them with thirst and utter destruction. ^7.30 And Uzziah said to them, "Have courage, my brothers! Let us hold out for five more days; by that time the Lord our God will restore to us his mercy, for he will not forsake us utterly. ^7.31 But if these days pass by, and no help comes for us, I will do what you say." ^8.12 Who are you, that have put God to the test this day, and are setting yourselves up in the place of God among the sons of men? ^8.25 In spite of everything let us give thanks to the Lord our God, who is putting us to the test as he did our forefathers. ' "^8.26 Remember what he did with Abraham, and how he tested Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia in Syria, while he was keeping the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. " '^8.27 For he has not tried us with fire, as he did them, to search their hearts, nor has he taken revenge upon us; but the Lord scourges those who draw near to him, in order to admonish them." ^8.33 Stand at the city gate tonight, and I will go out with my maid; and within the days after which you have promised to surrender the city to our enemies, the Lord will deliver Israel by my hand. ' "^9.1 Then Judith fell upon her face, and put ashes on her head, and uncovered the sackcloth she was wearing; and at the very time when that evening's incense was being offered in the house of God in Jerusalem, Judith cried out to the Lord with a loud voice, and said, " '^9.2 "O Lord God of my father Simeon, to whom thou gavest a sword to take revenge on the strangers who had loosed the girdle of a virgin to defile her, and uncovered her thigh to put her to shame, and polluted her womb to disgrace her; for thou hast said, `It shall not be done\' -- yet they did it. ^9.3 So thou gavest up their rulers to be slain, and their bed, which was ashamed of the deceit they had practiced, to be stained with blood, and thou didst strike down slaves along with princes, and princes on their thrones; ^9.4 and thou gavest their wives for a prey and their daughters to captivity, and all their booty to be divided among thy beloved sons, who were zealous for thee, and abhorred the pollution of their blood, and called on thee for help -- O God, my God, hear me also, a widow. ^9.8 Break their strength by thy might, and bring down their power in thy anger; for they intend to defile thy sanctuary, and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name rests, and to cast down the horn of thy altar with the sword. ^9.9 Behold their pride, and send thy wrath upon their heads; give to me, a widow, the strength to do what I plan. ^9.10 By the deceit of my lips strike down the slave with the prince and the prince with his servant; crush their arrogance by the hand of a woman. ^9.11 "For thy power depends not upon numbers, nor thy might upon men of strength; for thou art God of the lowly, helper of the oppressed, upholder of the weak, protector of the forlorn, savior of those without hope. ^9.14 And cause thy whole nation and every tribe to know and understand that thou art God, the God of all power and might, and that there is no other who protects the people of Israel but thou alone!" ^11.7 Nebuchadnezzar the king of the whole earth lives, and as his power endures, who had sent you to direct every living soul, not only do men serve him because of you, but also the beasts of the field and the cattle and the birds of the air will live by your power under Nebuchadnezzar and all his house. ^11.22 And Holofernes said to her, "God has done well to send you before the people, to lend strength to our hands and to bring destruction upon those who have slighted my lord. ^12.7 So Holofernes commanded his guards not to hinder her. And she remained in the camp for three days, and went out each night to the valley of Bethulia, and bathed at the spring in the camp. ^12.8 When she came up from the spring she prayed the Lord God of Israel to direct her way for the raising up of her people. ^12.9 So she returned clean and stayed in the tent until she ate her food toward evening. ^12.10 On the fourth day Holofernes held a banquet for his slave only, and did not invite any of his officers. ^13.4 So every one went out, and no one, either small or great, was left in the bedchamber. Then Judith, standing beside his bed, said in her heart, "O Lord God of all might, look in this hour upon the work of my hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. ^13.7 She came close to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head, and said, "Give me strength this day, O Lord God of Israel!" ^13.8 And she struck his neck twice with all her might, and severed it from his body. ^13.11 Judith called out from afar to the watchmen at the gates, "Open, open the gate! God, our God, is still with us, to show his power in Israel, and his strength against our enemies, even as he has done this day!" ^13.12 When the men of her city heard her voice, they hurried down to the city gate and called together the elders of the city. ^13.13 They all ran together, both small and great, for it was unbelievable that she had returned; they opened the gate and admitted them, and they kindled a fire for light, and gathered around them. ^13.14 Then she said to them with a loud voice, "Praise God, O praise him! Praise God, who has not withdrawn his mercy from the house of Israel, but has destroyed our enemies by my hand this very night!" ^13.15 Then she took the head out of the bag and showed it to them, and said, "See, here is the head of Holofernes, the commander of the Assyrian army, and here is the canopy beneath which he lay in his drunken stupor. The Lord has struck him down by the hand of a woman. ^13.16 As the Lord lives, who has protected me in the way I went, it was my face that tricked him to his destruction, and yet he committed no act of sin with me, to defile and shame me." ^13.17 All the people were greatly astonished, and bowed down and worshiped God, and said with one accord, "Blessed art thou, our God, who hast brought into contempt this day the enemies of thy people." ^13.18 And Uzziah said to her, "O daughter, you are blessed by the Most High God above all women on earth; and blessed be the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who has guided you to strike the head of the leader of our enemies. ^13.20 May God grant this to be a perpetual honor to you, and may he visit you with blessings, because you did not spare your own life when our nation was brought low, but have avenged our ruin, walking in the straight path before our God." And all the people said, "So be it, so be it!" ^14.11 As soon as it was dawn they hung the head of Holofernes on the wall, and every man took his weapons, and they went out in companies to the passes in the mountains. ^14.18 "The slaves have tricked us! One Hebrew woman has brought disgrace upon the house of King Nebuchadnezzar! For look, here is Holofernes lying on the ground, and his head is not on him!" ^15.1 When the men in the tents heard it, they were amazed at what had happened. ^15.2 Fear and trembling came over them, so that they did not wait for one another, but with one impulse all rushed out and fled by every path across the plain and through the hill country. ^1
5.3 Those who had camped in the hills around Bethulia also took to flight. Then the men of Israel, every one that was a soldier, rushed out upon them. ^15.4 And Uzziah sent men to Betomasthaim and Bebai and Choba and Kola, and to all the frontiers of Israel, to tell what had taken place and to urge all to rush out upon their enemies to destroy them. ^15.5 And when the Israelites heard it, with one accord they fell upon the enemy, and cut them down as far as Choba. Those in Jerusalem and all the hill country also came, for they were told what had happened in the camp of the enemy; and those in Gilead and in Galilee outflanked them with great slaughter, even beyond Damascus and its borders. ^15.6 The rest of the people of Bethulia fell upon the Assyrian camp and plundered it, and were greatly enriched. ^15.7 And the Israelites, when they returned from the slaughter, took possession of what remained, and the villages and towns in the hill country and in the plain got a great amount of booty, for there was a vast quantity of it. ^15.9 And when they met her they all blessed her with one accord and said to her, "You are the exaltation of Jerusalem, you are the great glory of Israel, you are the great pride of our nation! ^15.10 You have done all this singlehanded; you have done great good to Israel, and God is well pleased with it. May the Almighty Lord bless you for ever!" And all the people said, "So be it!" ^16.5 He boasted that he would burn up my territory, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash my infants to the ground and seize my children as prey, and take my virgins as booty. '' None

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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