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|txtha=([[τετράρχης]]) (T WH τετραάρχης; [[see]] the [[preceding]] [[word]], and cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 117), τετράρχου, ὁ (from [[τέτρα]], [[which]] [[see]], and [[ἄρχω]]), a [[tetrarch]]; i. e.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[governor]] of the [[fourth]] [[part]] of [[any]] [[region]]. Thus Strabo, 12, p. 567, states [[that]] [[Galatia]] [[was]] [[formerly]] divided [[into]] [[three]] parts, [[each]] [[one]] of [[which]] [[was]] distributed [[into]] [[four]] smaller subdivisions [[each]] of [[which]] [[was]] governed by 'a [[tetrarch]]'; [[again]], in [[book]] 9, p. 430, he relates [[that]] [[Thessaly]], [[before]] the [[time]] of [[Philip]] of Macedon, had been divided [[into]] [[four]] 'tetrarchies' [[each]] of [[which]] had its [[own]] '[[tetrarch]]'.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> the [[word]] [[lost]] its [[strict]] etymological [[force]], and came to [[denote]] "the [[governor]] of a [[third]] [[part]] or [[half]] of a [[country]], or [[even]] the [[ruler]] of an [[entire]] [[country]] or [[district]] provided it were of [[comparatively]] [[narrow]] limits; a [[petty]] [[prince]]" (cf. e. g. [[Plutarch]], Anton. 56,3, i., p. 942a.). Thus Antony made [[Herod]] (afterward [[king]]) and Phasael, sons of [[Antipater]], tetrarchs of [[Palestine]], Josephus, Antiquities 14,13, 1. After the [[death]] of [[Herod]] the Great, his sons, [[Archelaus]] styled an ethnarch [[but]] Antipas and [[Philip]] [[with]] the [[title]] of 'tetrarchs', divided and governed the [[kingdom]] [[left]] by [[their]] [[father]]; Josephus, Antiquities 17,11, 4. Cf. Fischer, De vitiis etc., p. 428; Winer s RWB, [[under]] the [[word]] Tetrarch, and [[especially]] Keim in Schenkel v., p. 487ff The [[tetrarch]] [[Herod]] Antipas is mentioned in Acts 13:1.
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