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.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
fô?shun. See SCIMITAR.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Fauchion
i.e. FALCHION, is the rendering (Jdt_13:6; Jdt_16:9) of the Greek ἀκινάκης; (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.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.