Strong's #2264: Herodes (pronounced hay-ro'-dace)

compound of heros (a "hero") and 1491; heroic; Herod, the name of four Jewish kings:--Herod.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

̔́ / ̔́

Hērōdēs / hērōs

Herod = "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 12:21

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.

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: compound of heros (a "hero" ) and G1491

Usage:

This word is used 45 times:

 

Matthew 2:1: "of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came"
Matthew 2:3: "When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all"
Matthew 2:7: "Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, inquired of them diligently"
Matthew 2:12: "that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another"
Matthew 2:13: "I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the"
Matthew 2:15: "until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken"
Matthew 2:16: "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men,"
Matthew 2:19: "But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in"
Matthew 2:22: "in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding,"
Matthew 14:1: "At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the"
Matthew 14:3: "For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put"
Matthew 14:6: "But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced"
Matthew 14:6: "before them, and pleased Herod."
Mark 6:14: "And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:)"
Mark 6:16: "But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom"
Mark 6:17: "For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and"
Mark 6:18: "For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have"
Mark 6:20: "For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man"
Mark 6:21: "day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper"
Mark 6:22: "danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king"
Mark 8:15: "and of the leaven of Herod."
Luke 1:5: "in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain"
Luke 3:1: "being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his"
Luke 3:19: "But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for"
Luke 3:19: "all the evils which Herod had done,"
Luke 8:3: "Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod's steward, and Susanna, and"
Luke 9:7: "Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by"
Luke 9:9: "And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who"
Luke 13:31: "depart hence: for Herod will kill thee."
Luke 23:7: "as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him"
Luke 23:7: "jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was"
Luke 23:8: "And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was"
Luke 23:11: "And Herod with his men of war set him at naught, and"
Luke 23:12: "day Pilate and Herod were made friends together:"
Luke 23:15: "No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him;"
Acts 4:27: "whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with"
Acts 12:1: "about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands"
Acts 12:6: "And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same"
Acts 12:11: "me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the"
Acts 12:19: "And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined"
Acts 12:20: "And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but"
Acts 12:21: "And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel,"
Acts 13:1: "Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with"
Acts 13:1: "Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with"
Acts 23:35: "him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall."