ARETAS (Arab. Haritha)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V02,
Page 455
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:ARETAS (Arab. Haritha)
, the See also:Greek See also:form of a name See also:borne- by See also:kings of the See also:Nabataeans See also:resident at See also:Petra in See also:Arabia
.
(r) A See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Antiochus IV
.
Epiphanes (2 Macc. v
.
8)
.
(2) The See also:father-in-See also:law of See also:Herod Antipas (Jos
.
See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
Ant. xviii
.
5
.
I, 3)
.
In 2 See also:Cor
.
Xi
.
3.2 he is described as ruler of See also:Damascus (q.v.) at the time of See also:Paul's See also:conversion
.
Herod Antipas had married a daughter of See also:Aretas, but afterwards discarded her in favour of Herodias
.
This led to a See also:war with Aretas in which Antipas was defeated
.
An Aretas is mentioned in 1 Macc. xv
.
22, but the true See also:reading is probably Ariarathes (king of See also:Cappadocia)
.
See NABATAEANS
.
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