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Tetrarch
A title meaning "ruler of a fourth part." Sometimes is translated "king." Four members of the Herod family named in the New Testament were Roman tetrarchs (Acts 12:1-2). Herod the Great (Matthew 2) was tetrarch before he was king according to the Jewish historian Josephus; his son Herod Antipas called "Herod the Tetrarch" (Matthew 14:1, Acts 13:1); Herod Philip, the brother of Antipas (Mark 6:17); and Lysanius, tetrarch of Abilene (Luke 3:1). A tetrarch's privileges and power were royal, but inferior to those of a real king or emperor.


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