Oholah and Oholibah
In the Hebrew Bible, Oholah (Template:Lang Template:Translit) and Oholibah (Template:Lang Template:Translit) (or Aholah and Aholibah in the King James Version and Young's Literal Translation) are pejorative personifications given by the prophet Ezekiel to the cities of Samaria in the Kingdom of Israel and Jerusalem in the kingdom of Judah, respectively. They appear in chapter 23 of the Book of Ezekiel.<ref>Template:Bibleverse (KJV); Template:Bibleverse</ref>
There is a pun in these names in the Hebrew. Template:Transliteration means "her tent", and Template:Transliteration means "my tent is in her."<ref name="BerlinBrettler2014">Template:Cite book</ref>
The Hebrew prophets frequently compared the sin of idolatry to the sin of adultery, in a reappearing rhetorical figure.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp Ezekiel's rhetoric directed against these two allegorical figures depicts them as lusting after Egyptian men in explicitly sexual terms in Ezekiel 23:20–21:<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
Ezekiel 23:44
A hapax legomenon, Template:Lang (Template:Translit), is translated as "women", though it is different than the normal plural form of Template:Lang (Template:Translit, 'woman'), which is Template:Lang (Template:Translit). Paul Mankowski writes "'He went in to her as to a harlot, indeed they have gone in to Oholah and Oholibah Template:Lang of wickedness.' The easiest and perhaps correct solution to the difficulty of the anomalous Template:Lang in this verse is to assume the text is corrupt and emend it."<ref name="Mankowski 2000 p.46 ">Template:Cite book</ref>
Catharism
In the divergent theology of the Cathars, the heterodox Christian movement thriving in the 12th to 14th centuries, Oholah and Oholibah inspired the belief that the Cathar Invisible Father had two spiritual wives, Collam and Hoolibam.