Herodian
noun, adjective
Herodian is a noun meaning “One of a sect or party mentioned in the New Testament as having, in Galilee and Jerusalem, manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-R-O-D-I-A-N, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Herodian is Herodians.
What does Herodian mean?
noun
- 1
One of a sect or party mentioned in the New Testament as having, in Galilee and Jerusalem, manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus.
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to the Biblical Herod or the line of kings of which he was a part.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of Herodian
- Herodians plural
- more Herodian comparative
- most Herodian superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Herodian?
Herodian appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Herodian come from?
From Herod + -ian.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).