ethnarch

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Archelaus had been designated king by Herod, with Judea, Samaria, and Idumea as his kingdom; but the emperor allowed him only the territory, with the title ethnarch.

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  1. noun The ruler of a province or a people.

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  • Archelaus had been designated king by Herod, with Judea, Samaria, and Idumea as his kingdom; but the emperor allowed him only the territory, with the title ethnarch. —  The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
  • This is the word he uses for 'ethnarch,' Contra Flaccum_, § 10. —  The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study
  • This was done in the ninth year of Hyrcanus the high priest and ethnarch, in the month Panemus." —  Antiquities of the Jews
  • It is the pleasure also of the senate that Hyrcanus the ethnarch, and the Jews, retain those places, countries, and villages which belonged to the kings of Syria and Phoenicia, the confederates of the Romans, and which they had bestowed on them as their free gifts. —  Antiquities of the Jews
  • Samaria, under the title of ethnarch; Herod Antipas obtained Galilee and —  Ancient States and Empires
 

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  1. Greek ethnarkhēs : ethnos, nation; see ethnic + -arkhēs, -arch.

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  1. from Greek ἐθνάρχης, from ἔθνος, a nation, people, + ἄρχειν, rule.
 

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