G745GreekArchelaus
Archelaus
people-ruling; archelaus, a jewish king
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Detailed Definition
- 1a son of herod the great by malthace, a samaritan woman
Etymology & Derivation
from g0757 and g2994
Scholarly Notes
he and his brother antipas were brought up with a certain private man in rome. after the death of his father, he ruled as ethnarch over judaea, samaria and idumaea, (with the exception of the cities of gaza, gadara and hipo). the jews and the samaritans having accused him at rome of tyranny, he was banished by the emperor augustus to vienna of the allobroges and died there.