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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

sim'-i-tar, -ter (akindke): Formerly given as "fauchion" in the King James Version Judith 13:6; 16:9, the weapon which Judith took down from the rail of the bed at Holofernes' head, and with which she severed his head from his body.