Antipas

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Antipas
     (1.) Herod Antipas, a son of Herod the Great by his Samaritan
     wife Malthace. He was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea during the
     whole period of our Lord's life on earth (Luke 23:7). He was a
     frivolous and vain prince, and was chargeable with many infamous
     crimes (Mark 8:15; Luke 3:19; 13:31, 32). He beheaded John the


     Baptist (Matt. 14:1-12) at the instigation of Herodias, the wife
     of his half-brother Herod-Philip, whom he had married. Pilate
     sent Christ to him when he was at Jerusalem at the Passover
     (Luke 23:7). He asked some idle questions of him, and after
     causing him to be mocked, sent him back again to Pilate. The
     wife of Chuza, his house-steward, was one of our Lord's
     disciples (Luke 8:3).
     
       (2.) A "faithful martyr" (Rev. 2:13), of whom nothing more is
     certainly known.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Antipas, for all, or against all