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Herodias

Mentioned in 4 verses across 3 books, first in Mark 6:19. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

All 2 verses in Mark, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Mark

  • Mark 6:19

    So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,

  • Mark 6:22

    When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

(Matt. 14:3-11; Mark 6:17-28; Luke 3:19), the daughter of Aristobulus and Bernice. While residing at Rome with her husband Herod Philip I. and her daughter, Herod Antipas fell in with her during one of his journeys to that city. She consented to leave her husband and become his wife. Some time after, Herod met John the Baptist, who boldly declared the marriage to be unlawful. For this he was “cast into prison,” in the castle probably of Machaerus (q.v.), and was there subsequently beheaded.

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