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Key facts
- Reign
- 132–135
- Born
- Simon bar Koseba ( שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כֹסֵבָא )
- Died
- 135, Betar , Judea , Roman Empire
- Religion
- Judaism
- Occupation
- Military leader
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Simon
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Betar
- Participant in
- Bar Kokhba revolt
- Image
- Arthur Szyk (1894-1951). Bar Kochba (1927), Paris.jpg
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- Commons category
- Simon bar Kokhba
- date of death
- 0135-01-01
- relative
- Eleazar of Modi'im
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- date of birth
- 0050-00-00
- name in native language
- שמעון בר כוכבא
- subject has role
- Messiah in Judaism
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Simon bar Kokhba (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כּוֹכְבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Kōḵḇāʾ) pronounced Shimon Bar-Kokhva or Simon bar Koseba (שִׁמְעוֹן בַּר כֹסֵבָא Šīm‘ōn bar Ḵōsēḇaʾ), commonly referred to simply as Bar Kokhva, was a Jewish military leader in Judea. He lent his name to the Bar Kokhba revolt, which he initiated against the Roman Empire in 132 CE. Though they were ultimately unsuccessful, Bar Kokhba and his rebels did manage to establish and maintain a Jewish state for about three years after beginning the rebellion. Bar Kokhba served as the state's leader, crowning himself as nasi (lit. 'prince'). Some of the rabbinic scholars in his time believed him to be the long-expected Messiah.
In 135, Bar Kokhba was killed by Roman troops in the fortified town of Betar. The Judean rebels who remained after his death were all killed or enslaved within the next year, and their defeat was followed by a harsh crackdown on the Judean populace by the Roman emperor Hadrian.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simon bar Kokhba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.