Gender Feminine
Usage Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Scripts Ἡρῳδιάς, Ἡρωδιάς(Ancient Greek)
Meaning & History
Feminine form of Herod. This was the name of a member of the Herodian ruling family of Judea, a sister of Herod Agrippa and the wife of Herod Antipas. She appears in the New Testament, where she contrives to have her husband Antipas imprison and execute John the Baptist.
Related Names
User SubmissionHérodias
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Sources & References
- Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g2266, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g2266.
