Herodian
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English
Etymology
Noun
Herodian (plural Herodians)
- One of a sect or party mentioned in the New Testament as having, in Galilee and Jerusalem, manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus.
Translations
Adjective
Herodian (comparative more Herodian, superlative most Herodian)
- Of or relating to the Biblical Herod or the line of kings of which he was a part.
- 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 349:
- As the walls arose, the viceroy of Syria presided, Suleiman's imperial architect Sinan probably inspected the work on his way home from Mecca: thousands of workers laboured, new stones were quarried, old stones purloined from ruined churches and Herodian palaces, and the ramparts and gates carefully fused with the Herodian and Umayyad walls around the Temple Mount.
