Lexical Summary Archelaos: "people-ruling", Archelaus, a son of Herod the Great and king of Judea, Samaria and Idumea Original Word: ἈρχέλαοςTransliteration: Archelaos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khel'-ah-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: "people-ruling", Archelaus, a son of Herod the Great and king of Judea, Samaria and Idumea Meaning: Archelaus -- "people-ruling", a son of Herod the Great Strong's Concordance Archelaus. From archo and Laodikeus; people-ruling; Archelaus, a Jewish king -- Archelaus. see GREEK archo see GREEK Laodikeus Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 745: ἈρχέλαοςἈρχέλαος, Ἀρχελου, ὁ, Archelaus (from ἄρχω and λαός, ruling the people), a son of Herod the Great by Malthace, the Samaritan. He and his brother Antipas were brought up with a certain private man at Rome (Josephus, Antiquities 17, 1, 3). After the death of his father he ruled ten years as ethnarch over Judaea, Samaria, and Idumaea, (with the exception of the cities Gaza, Gadara, and Hippo). The Jews and Samaritans having accused him at Rome of tyranny, he was banished by the emperor (Augustus) to Vienna of the Allobroges, and died there (Josephus, Antiquities 17, 9, 3; 11, 4; 13, 2; b. j. 2, 7, 3): Matthew 2:22. (See B. D. under the word and cf. Ἡρῴδης.) |
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