NOUN
- king of Judea who (according to the New Testament) tried to kill Jesus by ordering the death of all children under age two in Bethlehem (73-4 BC)
How To Use Herod the Great In A Sentence
- Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, was tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea.
- Few resented her tone as deeply as her Judaean neighbor, Herod the Great; the relationship between the two sovereigns proceeded by mutual betrayals. Still Under Cleopatra's Spell
- What was the position of this debouchure in the time of Herod the Great?
