Φίλιππος, 
Φιλίππου, 
ὁ, 
Philip; 
1. a son of Herod the Great by his fifth wife, Cleopatra of Jerusalem (
Josephus, Antiquities 17, 1, 3), and by far the best of his sons. He was tetrarch of Gaulanitis, Trachonitis, Auranitis, Batanaea. and (according to the disputed statement of 
Luke 3:1) of Ituraea also (cf. 
Schürer as below; but see 
B. D. American edition, under the word Ituraea); and the founder of the cities of Caesarea Philippi (in the Decapolis) and Julias. After having lived long in celibacy, he married Salome, the daughter of Herod (Philip, the disinherited; see below) his halfbrother (
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 4). He ruled mildly, justly and wisely thirty-seven years, and in 
A.D. 34 died without issue, leaving a grateful memory of his reign in the minds of his subjects (
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 2, 1 and 4, 6; 
b. j. 2, 9, 1): 
Matthew 16:13; 
Mark 8:27; 
Luke 3:1; cf. 
Keim, in 
Schenkel iii., p. 40ff; 
Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17, a.; (
BB. DD.). In 
Matthew 14:3; 
Mark 6:17. and 
Luke 3:19 Rec. it is said that his wife was Herodias (see 
Ἡρῳδιάς); thus Herod, the son of Herod the Great by Mariamne the daughter of the high priest Simon (
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 1; 
b. j. 1, 28, 4), who lived as a private citizen in comparative obscurity and was the first husband of Herodias (
Josephus, Antiquities 18, 5, 4), seems to have been confounded with Philip, who as a ruler was better known (cf. Volkmar, Ueber ein. histor. Irrthum in den Evangg., in Zeller's Theol. Jahrbb. for 1846, p. 363ff). Many interpreters (see especially 
Krebs, Observations, etc., p. 37f; (Deyling, Observations, sacr. vol. ii. (2nd edition), p. 342ff)), in vindication of the Evangelists, make the somewhat improbable conjecture that the first husband of Herodias had two names, one a family name Herod, the other a proper name Philip; (yet so 
Winer, RWB, under the word Philippus, 5; 
BB. DD.; Gerlach in the Zeitschr. f. Luth. Theol. for 1869, p. 32f; Meyer on Matthew, the passage cited; Weiss on Mark, the passage cited). 
2. Philip of Bethsaida (in Galilee), one of the apostles: 
Matthew 10:8; 
Mark 3:18; 
Luke 6:14; 
John 1:43-48(
John 1:44-49); 
John 6:5,
7; 
12:21f; 
14:8f; 
Acts 1:13. 
3. Philip, one of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem, and also an 'evangelist' (
εὐαγγελιστής. which see): 
Acts 6:5; 
Acts 8:5-40; 
Acts 21:8. 
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