Word: Arcelaoj

Pronounce: ar-khel'-ah-os

Strongs Number: G745

Orig: from 757 and 2994; people-ruling; Archelaus, a Jewish king:--Archelaus. G757

Use: Noun Masculine

Heb Strong:

Archelaus = "prince of the people"

1) A son of Herod the Great by Malthace, the Samaritan woman. He and his brother Antipas were brought up with a certain private man in Rome. After the death of his father, he ruled as ethnarch over Judaea, Samaria and Idumaea, (with the exception of the cities of Gaza, Gadara and Hipo). The Jews and the Samaritans having accused him at Rome of tyranny, he was banished by the emperor Augustus to Vienna of the Allobroges and died there.