Herodian

plural Herodians

1. One of a sect or party mentioned in the New Testament as having, in Galilee and Jerusalem, manifested an unfriendly disposition towards Jesus.

comparative more Herodian · superlative most Herodian

1. Of or relating to the Biblical Herod or the line of kings of which he was a part.

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   As the walls arose, the viceroy of Syria presided, Suleiman's imperial architect Sinan probably inspected the work on his way home from Mecca: thousands of workers laboured, new stones were quarried, old stones purloined from ruined churches and Herodian palaces, and the ramparts and gates carefully fused with the Herodian and Umayyad walls around the Temple Mount.

   2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 349