Gender Masculine
Scripts Ἡρῴδης, Ἡρώδης(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Latin form of Herod, as well as the usual Biblical Greek transcription of Ἡρῴδης: after the classical period, the ι in the sequence ωι (often written as a subscript like ) was not pronounced.

Related Names

Rootsheros + ode
Other Languages & CulturesHeroides(Ancient Greek) Herod(Biblical)

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Sources & References

  1. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g2264, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g2264.
Entry updated May 29, 2020