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That's interesting, I actually had to look that one up. I don't remember ever seeing the word Holocaust in the Bible, but I only ever read the King James version. But you're right, they do use it in the Catholic translations, specifically when instructing Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice. The King James version replaces that term with "burnt offering".
Iirc it is also used to refer to Abel’s offering of the firstling