Ἀρέτας

Spanish (DGE)

-α, ὁ
1 Aretas I caudillo de los nabateos en el II a.C., LXX 2Ma.5.8.
2 Aretas II, rey de los nabateos que acudió en ayuda de la ciudad de Gaza en I a.C., I.AI 13.360, BI 1.103.
3 Aretas III, rey de los nabateos a la muerte de Antíoco en I a.C./I d.C., D.S.40.4, I.AI 13.392, 14.14, App.Mith.106, D.C.37.15.1, St.Byz.s.u. Αὔαρα.
4 Aretas IV, rey de los nabateos, originariamente llamado Eneas, del 9 a.C. al 39 d.C., I.AI 16.294, 17.54, BI 1.574, 2Ep.Cor.11.32.
5 pariente del rey nabateo Obodas II, Str.16.4.24.

English (Strong)

of foreign origin; Aretas, an Arabian: Aretas.

English (Thayer)

(WH ἀρετάς, see their Introductory § 408), Ἁρέτα (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 8,1; (Buttmann, 20 (18))), ὁ, Aretas (a name common to many of the kings of Arabia Petraea or Nabathaean Arabia (cf. B. D. under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Nebaioth); cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17b., p. 233 f); an Arabian king who made war (36> A.D. 36) on his Song of Solomon -in-law Herod Antipas for having repudiated his daughter; and with such success as completely to destroy his army (Josephus, Antiquities 18,5). In consequence of this, Vitellius, governor of Syria, being ordered by Tiberius to march an army against Aretas, prepared for the war. But Tiberius meantime having died (March 16, 37> A.D. 37), he recalled his troops from the march, dismissed them to their winter quarters, and departed to Rome. After his departure Aretas held sway over the region of Damascus (how acquired we do not know), and placed an ethnarch over the city: Winer s RWB under the word; Wieseler in Herzog i., p. 488f; Keim in Schenkel i., p. 238f; Schürer in Riehm, p. 83 f; (B. D. American edition under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Aretas; Meyer on Acts , Einl. § 4 (cf. ibid., Wendt edition)).