Strong's #5076: tetrarches (pronounced tet-rar'-khace)

from 5064 and 757; the ruler of a fourth part of a country ("tetrarch"):--tetrarch.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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tetrarchēs

1) a tetrarch

1a) a governor of the fourth part of a region. Thus Strabo states that Galactia was formerly divided into three parts, each one of which was distributed into four smaller subdivisions each of which was governed by a tetrarch. Strabo relates that Thessaly, before the time of Philip of Macedon, had been divided into four tetrarchies, each having its own tetrarch.

1b) the governor of a third part or half a country, or even a ruler of an entire country or district provided it were of comparatively narrow limits; a petty prince. Thus Antony made Herod (afterwards king) and Phasael, sons of Antipater, tetrarchs of Palestine. After the death of Herod the Great, his sons, Achelaus styled an ethnarch but Antipas and Philip with the title of tetrarchs, divided and governed the kingdom left by their father.

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G5064 and G757

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Matthew 14:1: "time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,"
Luke 3:19: "But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for"
Luke 9:7: "Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by"
Acts 13:1: "of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod"
Acts 13:1: "of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod"