G5076 – tetrarches, tetraarches – τετράρχης, τετραάρχης – tetrarch
- Strong’s ID:
- G5076
- Greek Word:
- τετράρχης, τετραάρχης
- Transliteration:
- tetrarches, tetraarches
- Pronunciation:
- tet-rar’-khace
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 4
- Search:
- Find “tetrarches, tetraarches” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G5064 and G757; the ruler of a fourth part of a country (“tetrarch”):—tetrarch.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
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.
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.