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Fauchion

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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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.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Fauchion'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​f/fauchion.html. 1909.
 
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