holofernes

Noun
  1. (Apocrypha) the Assyrian general who was decapitated by the biblical heroine Judith (synset 111077216)
    referred to in: apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
    is an instance of: full general, general - a general officer of the highest rank

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