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Ἡρώδης
Transliteration
Herodes;
Pronunciation
hay-ro'-dace
Parts of Speech
n pr m
Root Word (Etymology)
compound of heros (a "hero") and 1491
KJV Translation Count — 44x
The KJV translates Strongs H1 in the following manner: Herod, Antipas (27), Herod, the Great (11), Herod Agrippa (6)
Outline of Biblical Usage
erod = "heroic"
1. the name of a royal family that flourished among the Jews in the times of Christ and the Apostles. Herod the Great was the son of Antipater of Idumaea. Appointed king of Judaea B.C. 40 by the Roman Senate at the suggestion of Antony and with the consent of Octavian, he at length overcame the great opposition which the country made to him and took possession of the kingdom B.C. 37; and after the battle of Actium, he was confirmed by Octavian, whose favour he ever enjoyed. He was brave and skilled in war, learned and sagacious; but also extremely suspicious and cruel. Hence he destroyed the entire royal family of Hasmonaeans, put to death many of the Jews that opposed his government, and proceeded to kill even his dearly beloved wife Mariamne of the Hasmonaean line and his two sons she had borne him. By these acts of bloodshed, and especially by his love and imitation of Roman customs and institutions and by the burdensome taxes imposed upon his subjects, he so alienated the Jews that he was unable to regain their favour by his splendid restoration of the temple and other acts of munificence. He died in the 70th year of his age, the 37th year of his reign, the 4th before the Dionysian era. In his closing years John the Baptist and Christ were born; Matthew narrates that he commanded all the male children under two years old in Bethlehem to be slain.
2. Herod surnamed "Antipas", was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, a Samaritan woman. After the death of his father he was appointed by the Romans tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea. His first wife was the daughter of Aretas, king of Arabia; but he subsequently repudiated her and took to himself Herodias, the wife of his brother Herod Philip; and in consequence Aretas, his father-in-law, made war against him and conquered him. He cast John the Baptist into prison because John had rebuked him for this unlawful connection; and afterwards, at the instigation of Herodias, he ordered him to be beheaded. Induced by her, too, he went to Rome to obtain from the emperor the title of king. But in consequence of the accusations brought against him by Herod Agrippa I, Caligula banished him (A.D. 39) to Lugdunum in Gaul, where he seems to have died. He was light minded, sensual and vicious.
3. Herod Agrippa I was the son of Aristobulus and Berenice, and grandson of Herod the Great. After various changes in fortune, he gained the favour of Caligula and Claudius to such a degree that he gradually obtained the government of all of Palestine, with the title of king. He died at Caesarea, A.D. 44, at the age of 54, in the seventh [or the 4th, reckoning from the extension of his dominions by Claudius] year of his reign, just after having ordered James the apostle, son of Zebedee, to be slain, and Peter to be cast into prison: Acts
4. (Herod) Agrippa II, son of Herod Agrippa I. When his father died he was a youth of seventeen. In A.D. 48 he received from Claudius Caesar the government of Chalcis, with the right of appointing the Jewish high priests, together with the care and oversight of the temple at Jerusalem. Four years later Claudius took from him Chalcis and gave him instead a larger domain, of Batanaea, Trachonitis, and Gaulanitis, with the title of king. To those reigns Nero, in A.D. 53, added Tiberias and Taricheae and Peraean Julias, with fourteen neighbouring villages. He is mentioned in Acts 25 and 26. In the Jewish war, although he strove in vain to restrain the fury of the seditious and bellicose populace, he did not desert to the Roman side. After the fall of Jerusalem, he was vested with praetorian rank and kept the kingdom entire until his death, which took place in the third year of the emperor Trajan, [the 73rd year of his life, and the 52nd of his reign] He was the last representative of the Herodian dynasty.
Strong's Definitions
hay-ro'-dace; compound of ἥρωσ (a "hero") and (1491) (εἰ̑δος); heroic; Herodes, the name of four Jewish kings: — Herod.
Concordance Results Using KJV
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in G2264 days of G2264 G2264 king, behold, G2264re came wise men from G2264 east to Jerusalem,
When G2264 G2264 king had heard G2264se things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
G2264n G2264, when he had privily called G2264 wise men, inquired of G2264m diligently what time G2264 star appeared.
And being warned of God in a dream that G2264y should not return to G2264, G2264y departed into G2264ir own country anoG2264r way.
And when G2264y were departed, behold, G2264 angel of G2264 Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take G2264 young child and his moG2264r, and flee into Egypt, and be thou G2264re until I bring G2264e word: for G2264 will seek G2264 young child to destroy him.
And was G2264re until G2264 death of G2264: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of G2264 Lord by G2264 prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
G2264n G2264, when he saw that he was mocked of G2264 wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all G2264 children that were in Bethlehem, and in all G2264 coasts G2264reof, from two years old and under, according to G2264 time which he had diligently inquired of G2264 wise men.
But when G2264 was dead, behold, an angel of G2264 Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in G2264 room of his faG2264r G2264, he was afraid to go thiG2264r: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into G2264 parts of Galilee: